Contents: The Glorious Madness – The Irish and the First World War. Ireland has a curious link to Gottfried Freiherr von Banfield (1890–1986), the most successful Austro-Hungarian naval pilot of the First World War. Known as the ‘Eagle of Trieste‘, he descended from the Banfields, a Quaker merchant family from Clonmel, County Tipperary. […]
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