Clonakilty
CLONAKILTY: One-off exhibition of flying
Operated by: Lord Carbery
Location: On the showground just SW of Clonakilty town centre, roughly 25nm SW of Cork city centre
Period of operation: 5th July 1914
A MICHAEL T HOLDER GALLERY
We have Mike Holder, a great friend of this 'Guide', to thank for both discovering the location of this venue and providing the following.
The advert was published in the Evening Echo (Cork) on the 4th July.
A GREAT DEAL OF LOCAL INTEREST GENERATED
This article, in five parts, was published in the Cork Weekly Examiner on the 11th July 1914.
The local area view is from my Google Earth © derived database.
NOTES: Lord Carbery, which I must confess is not a name I am familiar with, was by this time establishing quite a reputation for being a very capable aviator, and I find it of interest that he decided to do displays this far south in Eire. At that time the seeds of rebellion to establish a seperate State, divorced from the U.K., were proceeding at quite a pace. But, when WW1 was announced, many thousands in Ireland freely volunteered to fight that threat.
However, once that conflict had been resolved, rebellion quickly erupted. Perhaps spurred on by the utter catastrophe they had witnessed? Leading to the Irish War of Independence. Seems to me that, with hindsight of course, the British do not come out of it at all well. The Irish Free State being established in December 1922.
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