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Sir William
Sir William
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There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare.
There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare.
English Name: Burnet rose, Scotch rose Botanical Name (Latin): Rosa pimpinellifolia (R. spinosissima) Irish Name: Briúlán Order: DICOTYLEDONES Family: ROSACEAE Brief Description: Very spiny, deciduous shrub, usually c. 0.5m tall; flowers solitary, white, cream or pink; hip black with persistent crown of sepals.
Carsten Krieger
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Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
Cork gets its name from the marsh on which the city is built.
A plan of Cork in 1545
Copyright Cork City Library
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Ireland’s biodiversity is rich and varied
Ireland’s biodiversity is rich and varied
The Dingle Dolphin named Fungi, has become a firm favourite with locals and tourists. The young bottle-nosed dolphin has been around our shores since 1984.
Copyright Mike Brown
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26 counties as the Republic of Ireland.
26 counties as the Republic of Ireland.
This map shows the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland
Image provided by Findmeaconference.com
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Electron Wave Forms
Electron Wave Forms
A diagram showing three wave forms, or orbitals, of an electron around the nucleus of an atom. Each wave form corresponds to a different energy level of an electron. The term 'electron' was coined by physicist George Johnstone Stoney to describe a "fundamental unit of electricity." His concept suggested that the difference between gases, or their 'distinctive spectrum', lay in an electron's movement within the 'luminiferous aether' surrounding an atom.
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Civil Parish /Barony Map
Civil Parish /Barony Map
Baronies of Kerry are outlined in this map and civil parish boundaries are outlined. Baronies are a land division thought to be Norman in origin and civil parishes were originally religious divisions.
Kerry County Library
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A crater on the moon is named in honour of the Cork woman Agnes Mary Clerke
A crater on the moon is named in honour of the Cork woman Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Mary Clerke was a 19th century astronomer, born in Skibbereen, County Cork.
Wiki Commons
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George Gabriel Stokes
George Gabriel Stokes
<P> Stokes (1819 1903) was born in Co Sligo and came from a noted Irish scientific family. He went on to become one of the towering figures of 19th-century science and held the same job at Cambridge University as Isaac Newton before him, and Stephen Hawking today: Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. </P> <P> A measure of Stokes's importance is the many things named after him: Stokes's conjecture, Stokes's phenomenon, Stokes's layer, Stokes's line, Stokes's law of hydrodynamics and his law of fluorescence, the Navier-Stokes equations... there is even a unit named after him: the stokes, the standard unit of kinematic viscosity, is equal to 1cm^2/second. And if you prove the Navier Stokes equations describing how a viscous fluid flows, you can claim a $1 million prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute. </P> <P> <EM>Image: Portrait, widely used and not credited, but may have originated with the Royal Society</EM> </P>
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Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874 in County Kildare.
Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton was born in 1874 in County Kildare.
Ernest Henry Shackleton, Antarctic explorer.
Courtesy of the National Science & Engineering Plaques Committee