Royal Astronomer of Ireland

The Royal Astronomer of Ireland was a title attached to the Andrews Professorship of astronomy in Trinity College Dublin and the directorship of its astronomical observatory at Dunsink, near Dublin. The eight title-holders included Charles Jasper Joly, Professor Sir Robert Stawell Ball, Professor Sir William Rowan Hamilton, and Professor John Brinkley. The title of Royal Astronomer of Ireland was introduced by Letters Patent of George III in 1792 so John Brinkley was the first Royal Astronomer.

• 1783–1792 Henry Ussher
• 1792–1827 John Brinkley
• 1827–1865 Sir William Rowan Hamilton
• 1865–1874 Franz Friedrich Ernst Brünnow
• 1874–1892 Sir Robert Stawell Ball
• 1892–1897 Arthur Alcock Rambaut
• 1897–1906 Charles Jasper Joly
• 1906–1912 Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
• 1912–1921 Henry Crozier Keating Plummer

See also

• Astronomer Royal
• Astronomer Royal for Scotland

External links

• Trinity College Dublin's Astrophysics Research Group website.