... carriage way to the grandstand when the crowds cheered their horses. There was greater excitement one day in 1932, when Amelia Earhart landed at a field in the district. The races came to an end around the 1920 s and the track was used on fine summer days ...

... race officials and sponsors. race, organised to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Derry landing of American pilot, Amelia Earhart, was greeted with great enthusiasm. He said this year's race title should also include a reference to Earhart. Mr. Cathal ...

... The record was coincide with the Ssoth recorded on Jim's own anniversary celebrations of independent label “‘See Em” Amelia Earhart’s historic solo Records and he is hopeful that flight across the Atlantic. Jim he will be able to secure a diswrote the ...

... brave man, and as such will be saluted. His dramatic landing at Aran will be talked about there for years to come just as Amelia Earhart’s descent from the sky to a field outside Derry did 50 years ago. Dickinson's epic voyage, while it might pe criticised ...

... Maggie McCay, an old shawl wrapped round her, wispy hair The exciting years were when hanging over her face, begging in the Amelia Earhart landed her plane in a streets, and regularly being jailed for field in Derry while on a solo flight — drunken behaviour ...

... reception at the Guildhall on Saturday because the 32 yearsold Amelia Earhart ‘lookalike” plans to fly around the world along the equator in a Lockhead 10E — the flight which Amelia Earhart was trying to complete when she mysteriously disappeared. Earhart ...

... asircraft, was winner of the London to Derry air race wishing American flyer Grace McGuire good luck in her attempt to emulate Amelia Earhart’s achievement and fly the Atlantic from America and land near the spot at Ballyarnett, Derry, where Amelia landed after ...

... Then there were the great stories, like the world exclusive for the chief repcrter of the ‘‘Derry Journal” in 1932 when Amelia Earhart landed her plane just outside Derry. Over a century ago, the Londonderry Sentinel secured another Irish exclusive; to ...

... of the publicity material for the race. He said the Centre failed to abide by an undertaking to superimpose a photo of Amelia Earhart in front of their brochure. He also felt that there were too many ‘‘hangers on” at the air race banquet in the Guildhall ...

... from Derry, well known singer and songwriter and composer of the popular “Amelia” record to commemorate the flight of Amelia Earhart from New York to Derry. T T U Rp— Turning to his “pet’’ topic of local history, Patsy recailed that when he was going ...

... Members of Derry City Council’'s Amenities and Leisure Committee have been informed that the estimated cost for the 1984 Amelia Earhart Air Race will be in the region of £B,OOO. However, when details of the estimated cost was given at the Committee's monthly ...