question: Where was the subject of The Flying Irishman born?
answer: Galveston, Texas
context: Title: Kevin Myers
  Passage: Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947) is an English-born Irish journalist and writer.  He has contributed to "The Irish Times"' column "An Irishman's Diary", the "Irish Independent", and the Irish edition of the "Sunday Times".
  Title: Dickie Goodman
  Passage: In June 1956, Goodman created his first record, "The Flying Saucer Parts 1 & II", which he co-wrote with his partner Bill Buchanan, and which featured a four-minute rewriting of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio show.  This recording was the subject of a copyright infringement case against Goodman.  The court eventually ruled his sampled mix was considered a parody, and was an entirely new work.  The song "The Flying Saucer" was officially released under the artist name "Buchanan and Goodman" and was Goodman's highest-charting single on "Billboard", peaking at #3.  Buchanan and Goodman followed up with four other records: "Buchanan and Goodman on Trial" (#80 in 1956), "Flying Saucer The 2nd" (#18 in 1957), "The Creature (From A Science Fiction Movie)" (by Buchanan and Ancell) (#85 in 1957), and "Santa and the Satellite (Parts I & II)" (#32 in 1957).
  Title: Douglas Corrigan
  Passage: Douglas Corrigan (January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an American aviator born in Galveston, Texas.  He was nicknamed "Wrong Way" in 1938.  After a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York City, he flew from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach.  He claimed his unauthorized flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his compass.  However, he was a skilled aircraft mechanic (he was one of the builders of Charles Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. Louis") and had made several modifications to his own plane, preparing it for his transatlantic flight.  He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to Ireland, and his "navigational error" was seen as deliberate.  Nevertheless, he never publicly admitted to having flown to Ireland intentionally.
  Title: Hugh O'Conor
  Passage: Hugh Charles O'Conor (born 19 April 1975) is an Irish actor.  He started his acting career when he was ten.  His first film appearance was opposite Liam Neeson in the 1985 movie "Lamb".  He won Young Artist Awards of 1990 for his role in the film "My Left Foot", in which he portrayed the childhood days of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot.  It was his biggest hit to date.
  Title: The Flying Irishman
  Passage: The Flying Irishman (aka Born to Fly) is a 1939 biographical drama film produced by RKO Pictures about Douglas Corrigan's unofficial transatlantic flight the previous year in a dilapidated Curtiss Robin light aircraft.  The film was directed by Leigh Jason based on a screenplay by Ernest Pagano and Dalton Trumbo.
  Title: My Left Foot
  Passage: My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown is a 1989 Irish biographical drama film co-written and directed by Jim Sheridan and starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Ray McAnally and Fiona Shaw.  It tells the story of Christy Brown, an Irishman born with cerebral palsy, who could control only his left foot.  Christy Brown grew up in a poor, working-class family, and became a writer and artist.  The film also stars Julie Hale, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee, and Cyril Cusack.  It is a partly fictional biography, adapted by Shane Connaughton and Jim Sheridan from the book "My Left Foot" by Christy Brown.
  Title: Desmond Arthur
  Passage: Lieutenant Desmond Arthur (1884–1913) was an Irish aviator in No. 2 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps.  Following his death in Scotland's first fatal aircraft accident; a government inquiry was launched to investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.  The first inquiry found him responsible, but a later investigation exonerated Arthur.  His name is most famously connected to sightings of a ghost believed to haunt the airfield at RAF Montrose in Montrose, Angus, Scotland.  It is considered one of the most well-known ghost stories of the First World War.  Desmond Arthur was the first Irishman to be killed in an aircraft accident.
  Title: Henry Munro (United Irishman)
  Passage: Henry Munro (1758 – 1798) was a United Irishman born in Lisburn, County Down.
  Title: Danny Osborne
  Passage: Danny Osborne is an artist born in Dorset, England in 1949.  He is a resident of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada and Cork, Ireland.  Osborne studied at Bournemouth & Poole College of Art.  He is best known for his public sculptures, particularly his Oscar Wilde Memorial Sculpture "The Quare in the Square in Merrion Square Park" (originally commissioned by Guinness Ireland Group for £45,000) and located across from Ireland's National Gallery; listed by "The Irish Times" as one of the sites to see before you die along with an essay by Paula Murphy in the book Wilde: The Irishman and other notable public work including "First Breath" at Millennium Park in Kilrush, Co.  Clare.  In 1986, while living on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, Osborne and his series of porcelain figures were the subject of the documentary "Birds in Porcelain" by David Shaw-Smith.
  Title: Derry Power
  Passage: Derry Power (born 1935) is an Irish actor born in Dublin.  He appeared in the first production of Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow at Dublin's Pike Theatre in 1954.  He is best known for playing management genius Seamus Finnegan in the BBC Television sitcom "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin", with the classic line "Would you be having a joke there with a simple, tongue-tied Irishman from the land of the bogs and the little people?" .  In a long stage career he has featured in many plays in the Abbey Theatre; he has appeared in TV series from "Z-Cars" to "Ballykissangel" and in many films made in Ireland.
citations: Douglas Corrigan The Flying Irishman