The village once had its own airport, the Fitzmaurice Flying Field, named in 1929 for James Fitzmaurice, the first man to fly a plane from Canada to the United States.

In December 1569, after one of the chief rebels had come in to the government and confessed his treason, Gilbert received his knighthood at the hands of Sidney in the ruined Fitzmaurice camp, reputedly amid heaps of slain gallowglass warriors.

Lansdowne, who had succeeded his cousin, Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice, as 4th Earl of Kerry in 1818, took office with Canning in May 1827 and was Secretary of State for the Home Department from July of that year until January 1828.

The Master of the Fitzmaurice lodged a salvage claim of £ 5, 000 which had to be settled before departure from Ferrol, which was negotiated down and settled for £ 2, 000.

From there he sent an expedition to Ardfert, to win a quick victory and successfully recover the territory of his ally, Fitzmaurice, Lord of Kerry, who had lost it and his 9-year old son, to Sir Charles Wilmot.

John Petty ( originally John Fitzmaurice ), second son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 1st Earl of Kerry ( see the Earl of Kerry for earlier history of the family ), and his wife Anne, the daughter of the noted political economist Sir William Petty ( whose wife had been created Baroness Shelburne and whose two sons had been created Baron Shelburne and Earl of Shelburne respectively, but who had died without heirs ; see these title for more information ).

In 1568, the Lord-Deputy Sidney, after relieving the Lady St. Leger in Cork, advanced against this fortress, which he took from James Fitzmaurice after an obstinate resistance, and from this time during the entire reign of Elizabeth it had the reputation of being impregnable.

On 3 July 1879 at Ulundi, Zululand, South Africa, during the retirement of a reconnoitring party, Captain Lord William Beresford went to the assistance of Sergeant Fitzmaurice of the 24th Regiment, whose horse had fallen and rolled on him.

On 3 July 1879 at Ulundi, Zululand, South Africa, during the retirement of a reconnoitering party, a captain ( Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beresford ) of the 9th Lancers went to the assistance of Sergeant Fitzmaurice of the 24th Regiment whose horse had fallen and rolled on him.

Ansell never counted on being rescued ; he had told others he would be away for months, and any search parties would be combing over the Victoria River, not the Fitzmaurice.

A 600-strong Spanish and Italian papal invasion force which had come as part of the Second Desmond Rebellion of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald were besieged and massacred by the English crown forces of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.

Fitzmaurice had little stake in a new de-militarised order in Munster, which envisaged the abolition of the Irish lords ’ private armies.

A factor that drew wider support for Fitzmaurice was the prospect of land confiscations, which had been mooted by Sidney and Peter Carew, an English claimant to lands granted to an ancestor just after the Norman conquest of Ireland that were lost soon afterwards.

Fitzmaurice himself had lost the land he had held at Kerricurrihy in County Cork, which had been leased instead to English colonists.

Fitzmaurice however had wider aims than simply the recovery of FitzGerald supremacy within the context of the English Kingdom of Ireland.

Although all of the local chiefs had submitted by the end of the rebellion, the methods used to suppress it provoked lingering resentment, especially among the Irish mercenaries ; gall oglaigh or " gallowglass " as the English termed them, who had rallied to Fitzmaurice.

Prescott Valley ’ s Fitzmaurice Ruins contain artifacts from the early Mountain Patayan people who inhabited the area some 14, 000 years ago.

Amidst this international feinting and shaping, Archbishop of Cashel, Maurice Reagh Fitzgibbon-an ally of the Irish rebel, James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald-made some effort while in Spain to discredit Stukley's ambitions, much to the displeasure of

Complex gestural systems have also been reported in the southern, central, and western desert regions, the Gulf of Carpentaria ( including north-east Arnhem Land and the Tiwi Islands ), some Torres Strait Islands, and the southern regions of the Fitzmaurice and Kimberley areas.

The chief rebel, James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, eluded government forces for some time.

In 1578, to further the plans of exiled English and Irish Catholics such as Nicholas Sanders, William Allen, and James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, Gregory outfitted adventurer Thomas Stukeley with a ship and an army of 800 men to land in Ireland to aid in the hope for overthrow of Elizabeth's rule through the Catholic leader and former leader of the first Desmond rebellion, Fitzmaurice.

The 600-strong Italian, Spanish and Irish papal invasion force of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald was besieged by the English forces and massacred.

In June 1569, soon after Grenville's sailing for England, Fitzmaurice camped outside the walls of Waterford and demanded that Grenville's wife and Lady St Leger be given over to him, along with all the English and all prisoners ; the citizens refused.

Sometime during his service in the RAF, Fitzmaurice adopted the accent used by English officers.

Fitzmaurice launched his rebellion by attacking the English colony at Kerrycurihy south of Cork city in June 1569 before attacking Cork itself and those native lords who refused to join the rebellion.

Sidney forced Fitzmaurice into the mountains of Kerry, from where he launched hit and run attacks on the English and their allies.

Neil Fitzmaurice ( born 20 August 1969 ) is an English actor, comedian and writer.

On 28 October 1918, having completed his elementary training at Eastbourne, Fitzmaurice was posted to the No. 1 School of Fighting and Aerial Gunnery at Marske-by-the-Sea, near Middlesbrough.

Fitzmaurice landed at Smerwick, near Dingle ( modern County Kerry ) on July 18, 1579 with a small force of Spanish and Italian troops.

First granted in 1769 by Governor John Wentworth, the town was named for William Petty Fitzmaurice, Earl of Shelburne.

Fitzmaurice stayed out in rebellion ( only coming in to submit in 1573 ), and one month after Gilbert's return to England he retook Kilmallock with 120 foot, defeating the garrison and sacking the town for three days, leaving it " the abode of wolves ".

The town has a range of museums including the heritage listed former Corfield and Fitzmaurice emporium as well as the heritage truck and machinery museum.

In February 1571, John Perrot was made Lord President of Munster, pursuing Fitzmaurice with 700 troops for over a year without success.

Most of the Geraldines were subjugated by Humphrey Gilbert, but Fitzmaurice remained in arms, and in 1571 Sir John Perrot undertook to reduce him.

But Fitzmaurice had fled to Brittany in company with other leading Geraldines, John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald, seneschal of Imokilly, who had held Ballymartyr against Sidney in 1567, and Edmund Fitzgibbon, the son of the White Knight who had been attainted in 1571.

In the summer of 1579, Gilbert and Raleigh were commissioned by the lord deputy of Ireland, William Drury, to attack his old foe, the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, by sea and land and to intercept a fleet expected to arrive from Spain with aid for the Munster rebels.

The tunnel was designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice and built by Walter Scott & Middleton for London County Council and opened by Lord Cheylesmore, Chairman of the LCC, on Saturday, 26 October 1912.

Captain Booth reported the Cleopatra " abandoned and sinking ," but instead she drifted in the Bay until found four days later by Spanish trawler boats, then rescued by the Glasgow steamer Fitzmaurice and taken to Ferrol in Spain for repairs.

It was created circa 1223 for Thomas Fitzmaurice.

Following the series ' success, Kay and his co-writers, Neil Fitzmaurice and Dave Spikey, used the episode " In The Club " as the basis for Phoenix Nights.

* 2005: Deanne Fitzmaurice, San Francisco Chronicle, " for her sensitive photo essay on an Oakland hospital's effort to mend an Iraqi boy nearly killed by an explosion.

Fitzmaurice was taken out by his father for being underage.

On 8 June, Fitzmaurice left for England " to take up commission ".

Fitzmaurice was co-pilot of the Xenia with Maurice W. Piercey for the five and a half hour flight that only took them 300 miles off the Irish coast.

In 1998, for the 70th anniversary of the famous flight, a short film was made profiling the life of Fitzmaurice with dramatic reconstruction of the flight.