Richard Crosbie (1755–1824) was the first Irishman to make a manned flight.[1][2] He flew in a hydrogen air balloon from Ranelagh, on Dublin's southside to Clontarf, on Dublin's northside on 19 January 1785 at the age of 30.[3] His aerial achievement[4] occurred just 14 months after the first-ever manned balloon flight by the Montgolfier Brothers in France and is commemorated by a memorial located at the site of this historic event & commissioned by Dublin City Council.[5]
Crosbie, who was six feet three inches, was from Crosbie Park, near Baltinglass, County Wicklow. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin. In December 1780, he married Charlotte Armstrong, daughter of Archibald Armstrong, with whom he had two children, Edward and Mary. Edward went on to become an army officer and Mary a novelist.[1] Richard's brother, Sir Edward Crosbie, was executed for treason as a United Irishman on 5 June 1798.
Crosbie launched several balloons containing animals before attempting the first human flight on Irish soil. One of which, containing a cat, was seen passing over the west coast of Scotland[citation needed], before descending near the Isle of Man. The cat and the balloon were both rescued by a passing ship. The balloonists of the eighteenth century, pioneers in the first successful method of conquest of the air, were men of science comparable to the astronauts of the 1960s, attracting the same public excitement and receiving similar international publicity.[citation needed]
^ abMacMahon, Bryan (2010). Ascend or Die: Richard Crosbie, Pioneer of Balloon Flight. Dublin: The History Press Ireland. p. 226. ISBN 978-1-84588-985-2. OCLC 1244213121.
^Irish Ballooning Association (2012). "Ireland's First Aeronaut".
^Library Ireland. "Biography: Richard Crosbie".
^Rice, Eoghan (17 December 2006). "First Irishman to take to the skies to be honoured". The Sunday Tribune, Dublin.
^Commemorative Sculpture of Richard Crosbie, Dublin
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