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The Story of Irish Coffee
added the 31/05/2009
Daithai C
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brendan o'regan | captain blair | charles lindbergh | co. clare | flying boat | foynes | ireland | pan am | rineanna | shannon international airport | |
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DaithaiC
: "In a telling commentary on the pace of change in the modern world this year they will be celebrating the 70th anniversary of trans-Atlantic air travel in Foynes, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Ireland has a special place in this history as the “next parish” to America. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Foynes served as the hub for the latest mode of air travel - flying boat - between the US and Europe. Every flying boat leaving or arriving in Europe came through Foynes, and by 1940, Foynes Airport was being visited by the glitterati of the day: Ernest Hemingway, Humphrey Bogart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. "
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