Uploads from National Library of Ireland on The Commons, tagged plane

Amelia Earhart at Derry

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:12:20 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

On Saturday, 21 May 1932, Amelia Earhart was on her second Atlantic crossing when she was forced to land in a field near Derry (Londonderry) in her "Little Red Bus".

Ireland of the Welcomes was to the fore in the Irish Independent account on Monday, 23 May 1932:
"... the hospitality she had received after making her forced descent, for two minutes later she was in the cottage of Mr and Mrs Peter McCallion, who put their home at her disposal. Almost at the same time Mr Gallagher arrived and persuaded Miss Earhart to accompany him to his home, where Mrs Gallagher had tea already prepared." There was no account of how the McCallions took to having the Gallaghers scoop them in what must have been the tea party of their lives!

As Irish251 points out in the comments below: "Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Vega 5B is now preserved at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC.

Date: Saturday, 21 May 1932

NLI Ref.: INDH2848

Dublin Airport

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 05:52:20 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

An Aer Lingus DC-3 plane at Dublin Airport's original terminal building. This curved building won design awards for its architect, Desmond Fitzgerald, brother of former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Garret Fitzgerald, who worked in Aer Lingus for a number of years.

Date: Circa 1950

NLI Ref.: VAL 2069

Aeroplane on roof at Barrack Street, Waterford

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Tue, 17 May 2011 10:32:23 -0700

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Thanks to ofarrl (see comments below), we now have a lot more information about this photo. The crash happened in November 1920 as a "Scout" plane, carrying despatches from Fermoy to Waterford Barracks and manned by flying officers Briggs and McKiehan, crashed into the roofs of two houses opposite the Barracks. The house on the left was Mr Aspel's licensed premises, and the one on the right was privately owned by a Mrs McSweeney.

Date: November 1920

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2891

November 17, 1921

nobody@flickr.com (National Library of Ireland on The Commons) — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 02:20:18 -0800

National Library of Ireland on The Commons posted a photo:

Major renovations taking place at a shop (we think) on Great George's Street, Waterford. Although whatever was going on with the extension or renovation, it looks as if it was still more or less business as usual, with products still on the shelves and men working away in the warehouse area at the back. All the carpenters and plasterers in the foreground are slightly blurry because they're working away, but it looks as if the boy to the left was making the most of being in this photo...

The photo was commissioned by a Mr Phelan.

Date: 17 November 1921

NLI Ref.: P_WP_2968