January 19th, 1785 witnessed Richard Crosbie's triumphant takeoff from Ranelagh Gardens in his hydrogen balloon before an astonished crowd of 35,000 spectators, completing Ireland's first manned flight across Dublin Bay to Clontarf just two years after humanity's initial aeria…
Ranelagh is a small place in County Dublin. We're still writing the proper hub for it — pubs, food, walks, the things to skip — and it'll appear here when it does.