Astronomer Royal for Ireland
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Astronomer Royal for Ireland is an office attached to the directorship of an astronomical observatory at Dunsink, near Dublin. Office-holders included Charles Jasper Joly, Professor Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1874-1892), Professor Sir William Hamilton (1827-1865), and Professor John Brinkley.
- 1912-1921 Henry C. Plummer
- 1906-1912 Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
- 1897-1906 Charles Jasper Joly
- 1892-1897 Arthur Alcock Rambaut
- 1874-1892 Sir Robert Stawell Ball
- 1865-1874 Friedrich Ernst Brünnow
- 1827-1865 Sir William Rowan Hamilton
- 1792-1827 John Brinkley (astronomer
- 1783-1792 Rev. Henry Ussher
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Trinity College Dublin's Astrophysics Research Group website.
