Petticoat Pilots: Volume 2 - Biographies and Achievements of Irish Female Aviators, 1909-1939

From gentle flights by balloon to high-speed, adrenaline-packed air races, the women in these two volumes did it all. They competed in flying competitions throughout Europe, Africa and America. They grabbed newspaper headlines when they completed long-distance solo endurance flights. They established world records in other aviation spheres.` They were honoured with titles. Their backgrounds ranged from poverty to aristocracy but they associated and mingled with royals, nobles and socialites in the aviation heyday of the 1920s and 1930s. Sadly, however, history has largely forgotten these women. These two volumes give them their rightful place among Irish achievers of the early twentieth century.

Photographs documenting the Irish railway scene in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Imagine you are 35 years old, fit and healthy. Now imagine waking up and being unable to move or talk. How would you feel if you could see and hear perfectly, if you were aware of everything going on around you, but couldn’t show it? How would anyone know you were there?