School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)
- Location:
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Liam Seóighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090D, Page 11_034
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- (continued from previous page)under me. Mountains which seem like tiny bowls ; roads winding in out like threads and rivers seemed like little streams.
We have three aerodromes in Eire one at Foynes (Limerick) ; one at Rynanna (on the Shannon) and one at Balldonnell (Dublin). Not long ago we read in the newspaper about Douglas Corrigan who flew in his nine year old plane from Los Angeles (America) to Dublin "by mistake". He received a tremendous reception in Dublin when he arrived and the reception he got in New York was ten times better. It could something like the reception Colonel Lindbergh got when he flew around the Globe.
We must now turn our thoughts to the people who first invented this machine. They were the broth(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Dubhthaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo
