Editing Seán Lemass (section)

===Deaths of the Lemass brothers===
Three of Lemass's brothers died while young. When he was 16, Lemass killed his own baby brother, Herbert, aged twenty-two months, in a domestic shooting accident with a revolver on 28 January 1916.<ref name=it-lemass-silent-anguish>{{cite news|url=http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/se%C3%A1n-lemass-s-silent-anguish-1.1469235|title=Seán Lemass's silent anguish|newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]|date=21 July 2013|access-date=22 July 2013|author=Eunan O'Halpin|author-link=Eunan O'Halpin|archive-date=21 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130721164117/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/se%C3%A1n-lemass-s-silent-anguish-1.1469235|url-status=live}}</ref> His older brother, Noel, an anti-[[Anglo-Irish Treaty|Treaty]] officer, was abducted in June 1923 and murdered the following October, when he was 25; the Lemass family believed he was killed by pro-treaty soldier, [[Emmet Dalton]].<ref name=it-lemass-silent-anguish/> Another of Lemass's brothers, Patrick, died of natural causes at the age of 19 in 1926.<ref name=it-lemass-silent-anguish/>