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Dunsink (Irish: Dún Sinche,
meaning 'fort of Sineach') is a
townland in the
civil parish of Castleknock, Dublin, in Ireland. The
townland has an area...
- The
Dunsink Observatory is an
astronomical observatory established in 1785 in the
townland of
Dunsink in the
outskirts of the city of Dublin, Ireland...
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Astronomy at
Trinity College Dublin.
Hamilton was the
third director of
Dunsink Observatory from 1827 to 1865. His
career included the
study of geometrical...
- Mean Time. This time,
known as
Dublin Mean Time, is
local mean time at
Dunsink Observatory and was
official time in
Ireland between 1880 and 1916. Dublin...
- that was
established in 1783 in
conjunction with the
establishment of
Dunsink Observatory. From 1793,
under letters patent of King
George III, the Andrews...
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astronomer who
founded the **** theory. He was
Royal Astronomer of
Ireland at
Dunsink Observatory. He was the son of
naturalist Robert Ball and
Amelia Gresley...
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institute of
higher learning. De
Valera was
aware of the
decline of the
Dunsink Observatory,
where Sir
William Rowan Hamilton and
others had held the position...
- The
Hamilton Walk from
Dunsink Observatory to
Broom Bridge on the
Royal Canal in
Dublin takes place on 16
October each year. This is the
anniversary of...
- its
present location in
South Africa. This
became the site of the Armagh-
Dunsink-Harvard 36-inch Baker-Schmidt
telescope utilized by E.M.Lindsay (Harvard...
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under discussion, see below):
Timeball on the
ballast office is down.
Dunsink time.
Leopold Bloom in
Ulysses Before 1880, the
legal time at any place...
