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Heart of steel

... reminded me of primitive art. fn Co Derry her “The Wind Column”, in marble and stainless steel, commemorates the flier Amelia Earhart, and she has a commission for outdoor sculpture at Belfast City Hospital. The recent large exhibition of her work at the ...

Published: Monday 19 January 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 275 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

Defendable Increase

... noting that the old Foyle Arts Centre, the Interpretative Centres at the O'Doherty Fort, Foyle Valley Railway and the Amelia Earhart Cottage were in life this year for full opening. “To achieve that, and still keep the increase roughly in line with the ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 155 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Established 1772 Increase of Only 3.7 per cent

... full opening of the Old Foyle Art Centre and the Interpretative Centres at O'Doherty Fort, Foyle Valley Railway and the Amelia Earhart Cottage, this was a very satisfactory outcome. “This commendable result has been achieved by a combination of factors ...

Published: Friday 13 February 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 660 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

i An unlikely champion .

... just left that charming city by a month or two to seek tame and fortune in Belfast (t achieved neither) when curly-bobbed Amelia Earhart landed in a field beside the Culmore Road after the first transatlantic flight by a woman, although | still have a faded ...

Published: Saturday 14 February 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 352 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

“FINGERPOST” ON THE BOOKSHELVES

... the alternative planning project that there is a fourth issue for the old gasworks site, the shows that “Fingerpost” is Amelia Earhart Park and the managing to satisfy its reader-, philosophy behind NORIBIC. ship as well! P : ...

Published: Tuesday 31 March 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 240 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

6-35 OPEN UNIVERSITY. 900 Pages from CEEFAX. 9.38 DAYTIME ON TWO. 9-38 Religious Studies: Why? Because . .. 10 ..

... Better! Jerry Lang. 11 Flavelie Unravels:. Jackie Flavelie. 2-30 THE LATE LATE SHOW., 3-30 GENERATIONS. 4-00 BIOGRAPHY: ‘Amelia Earhart. 4-30 COUNTDOWN. 5-00 HOGAN'S HEROES. B 5-30 THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW. w 6-00 PAINTABILITY. In today's programme ...

Published: Monday 27 April 1987
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 855 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

HISTORICAL EARHART FLIGHT COMMEMORATION

... ON THE AMELIA Earhart Exhibition at the Amelia Earhart Cottage, Ballyarnett, will be officially opened on Thursday, the 55th anniversary of Miss Earhart’s historic solo flight across the Atlantic. The exhibition is housed in the Amelia Earhart Cottage ...

Published: Tuesday 19 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 239 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

– By Martin McGinley

... the tarmac. “1 can’t tell you how good the ground feels right now,” she said. It's fifty-five years last Thursday since Amelia Earhart completed the first trans-Atiantic solo flight by a woman when she landed in a field in Ballyarnett in front of a bemused ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 201 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Well Prepared

... James Spollen from Tullamore, who was waiting to take delivery of the ‘plane he bought in the States. Back in May 1932, Amelia Earhart tried and failed to keep her crossing attempt a secret, but since she planned to land in Paris her arrival in Derry came ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 149 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Terror

... aeroplane, but you have to push through your fear. It's one of those things about flying. “. '“l - “1 a tot closer to Amelia Earhart now — she must have gone through all kinds of scared feelings and exhilarating feelings just like | did, and she didn't ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 175 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY

... MARY’S FLIGHT THROUGH AVIATION HISTORY WHEN AMELIA EARHART was asked in Derry if she'd like to return to the city by ‘plane, she replied: “’| think you had better get an airport here before you invite people to come here by air.” Derry did get its airport ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 571 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

‘EARHART’ FLIGHT LANDS AT EGLINTON

... Airport outside Derry on Wednesday when an American woman pilot landed after re-tracing the famous Atlantic crossing made by Amelia Earhart fifty-five years ago. Mary Kelly from Oklahoma touched down shortly before 1 a.m. in her single-engine Cessna to fulfil ...

Published: Friday 29 May 1987
Newspaper: Derry Journal
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 215 | Page: 1 | Tags: none