Irish Air Corps Visit to Holy Family

A brief report on the visit and history of Colonel James Fitzmaurice. Written by Arjeta Kovaci from Mr. Dunne’s 6th Class.

An Irish Air Corps member came in to talk about his life as part of the air corps. He told us that as part of training he got to shoot a pistol, assault rifle, rocket launcher, throw grenades and use a few other weapons. He also told us that as part as the air corps he got to fly a various amounts of airplanes.

After that a man named Teddy Fennelly spoke to us about Ireland’s history about planes. He mainly spoke about a man called Colonel James Fitzmaurice. This man was the first man to fly to America from east to west. This man was born in Laois, here in Ireland and is a huge part of Ireland’s history. This man landed in New York in America. After he landed he was in Times Square for eighteen days. He told New York and all of America that he is Irish and that Ireland was a great country. He then became very famous. This was an amazing event in the history of Ireland.