Our next photograph is from quite a while back, the 19th century in fact!
Let's see if you can figure out the year...
Let's see if you can figure out the year...
It was the year that Doc Holliday, American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist, died.
In this year, E. Schrödinger, Austrian-Irish physicist, was born.
[He of the thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat". The experiment represents a state known as a quantum superposition. It is presented in the form of a cat in a box that may be simultaneously both alive and dead.]
[He of the thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat". The experiment represents a state known as a quantum superposition. It is presented in the form of a cat in a box that may be simultaneously both alive and dead.]
The first All-Ireland Hurling and Football Finals were held in this year.
Celtic FC was formed by Irish marist priest Andrew Kerins AKA Brother Walfrid, to help alleviate poverty in the Glasgow's East End by raising money for his charity.
Police in London clashed with Irish nationalist protesters on (what I believe was the first) Bloody Sunday.
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe, whose father was of Irish descent, was born.
The first Groundhog Day was observed in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
"It's cold out there every day."
"It's cold out there every day."
Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet.
Ooh, you're a clever bunch aren't you? :-) 👩🏫📗
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