Birth of Ernest Shackleton
Ernest Shackleton is born at Kilkea House in County Kildare and later becomes one of the most prominent explorers of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.
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1874 in Ireland
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Discovery of Electrons
After studying the phenomenon of electrolysis in 1874, Irish physicist George Johnstone Stoney suggested that there existed a "single definite quantity of electricity", the charge of a monovalent ion
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