* April 13 – The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean from east to west is made by Hermann Köhl, Ehrenfried Günther Freiherr von Hünefeld, and Major James Fitzmaurice in a Junkers W. 33 named Bremen.

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.

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

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 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.

They escalated into the first of the Desmond rebellions, led by James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald.

Negri's first two Paramount films were Bella Donna ( 1923 ) and The Cheat ( 1923 ), both of which were directed by George Fitzmaurice and were remakes of Paramount films from 1915.

On 12 – 13 April 1928, Fitzmaurice flew in the crew of the Bremen on the first transatlantic aircraft flight from East to West.

The airfield was the one from which the first successful east-west Atlantic crossing by a Junkers W33 aeroplane, the Bremen, took off on 12 April 1928 with Baron Hünefeld, Hermann Köhl and Captain James Fitzmaurice as co-pilot, as well as the first Aer Lingus flight took place on May 27, 1936.

At their first encounter, Walsingham hadn't known what to make of Fitzgibbon, realising that an agent of Burghley's had sowed dissension between the archbishop and Stukley ; but in 1575, he did have intelligence of Stukley's alliance with Fitzmaurice, at a time when the nuncio at Madrid was urging an invasion of England.

The American future major leaguers included pitchers Alan Closter, Dick Joyce, and Chuck Dobson ; catchers Jim Hibbs and Ken Suarez ; outfielder Shaun Fitzmaurice ; first baseman Mike Epstein ; and second baseman Gary Sutherland.

Fitzmaurice hit a home run on the first pitch of the game.

Limerick city offered strategic possibilities as a wealthy and fortified trading port, where the Protestant Reformation had not yet taken hold, and was geographically proximite to the turbulant Geraldine Palatinate of Desmond, where it was well known that the Jesuit Order were corresponding with the 14th Earl's cousin, Lord James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald, instigator of the first Desmond Rebellion.

Around the time of the premiere, Fitzmaurice returned to the stage for the first time in ten years, playing Shaun in On the Ledge at the Royal Court Theatre.

After The Stolen Brides moderate success, Korda was brought in to work on the comedy The Private Life of Helen of Troy ( 1927 ), replacing the previous director, George Fitzmaurice.

Despite having co-written Phoenix Nights with Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice, Fitzmaurice spoke of his dissatisfaction with Kay taking sole credit when he left their names off the script book.

An Post issued a postage stamp commemorating Fitzmaurice as part of a series of four stamps of Irish aviation pioneers in the same year when his daughter, Patricia, unveiled a bronze bust of Fitzmaurice in the foyer of Mountmellick County Hall.

All of these factors meant that, when Fitzmaurice returned from continental Europe to start a new rebellion, there were plenty of discontented people in Munster waiting to join him.

The second Desmond rebellion was sparked when James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald launched an invasion of Munster in 1579.

Desmond had perhaps been restrained before by jealousy of Fitzmaurice ; his indecisions ceased when on 1 November 1579 Sir William Pelham proclaimed him a traitor.

Princess Helena Victoria died at Fitzmaurice Place, Berkeley Square.

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.

Another papal expedition sailed to Ireland in 1579 with a mere 50 soldiers under the command of Fitzmaurice, accompanied by Sanders as papal legate.

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

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

It was directed by George Fitzmaurice.

Gilbert was then created colonel by Lord Deputy Sidney and charged with the pursuit of the rebel James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald.

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.

* 1928 First East-west transatlantic flight by Köhl, Hünefeld and Fitzmaurice in Junkers W33

However, this story dates from 1811 in a report by William Fitzmaurice.

Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, the Engineer to the London County Council, the tunnel's construction was authorised by the Thames Tunnel ( Rotherhithe and Ratcliff ) Act of 1900 despite considerable opposition from local residents, nearly 3, 000 of whom were displaced by the tunnel works.

With the granite piers already in place, it was decided to build a steel superstructure onto the existing piers, and a superstructure long and wide was designed by Binnie and Maurice Fitzmaurice and built by LCC engineers at a cost of £ 437, 000 ( about £ as of ).

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.

The buildings around the square include several by other notable architects including Robert Adam, who designed Lansdowne House ( since 1935 home of the Lansdowne Club ) in the southwest corner of the square on Fitzmaurice Place.

Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights was his notable TV programme, written by him, Dave Spikey and Neil Fitzmaurice and set in a newly refurbished social club run by wheelchair-bound Brian Potter.

Notably this did not include the characters portrayed by his former co-writers Neil Fitzmaurice or Dave Spikey, the latter's character instead being represented by a body double in brief scenes.

* Captain James Fitzmaurice, ( 1898 – 1965 ) co-pilot

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.

Desmond asserted that none but Brehon law should be observed between Geraldines ; and Fitzmaurice seized Captain George Bourchier ( father of Henry ), one of Elizabeth's officers in the west.

* Robert Matthew Fitzmaurice Deane-Morgan, 5th Baron Muskerry ( 1874 – 1952 )

* Robert Fitzmaurice Deane, 9th Baron Muskerry ( born 1948 )

North Kerry is the birthplace of many of Ireland ’ s most prominent writers past and present including Dr. John B Keane, Dr Bryan Mac Mahon, Professor Brendan Kennelly, Seamus Wilmot, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, George Fitzmaurice, Maurice Walsh and Robert Leslie Boland.

Robert Fitzmaurice Deane, 9th Baron Muskerry ( born 26 March 1948 ) is a nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland.

* Robert Fitzmaurice Deane, 9th Baron Muskerry