Are there any museums or sites in Ireland honouring William Rowan Hamilton?

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The first time he came up with the formula for quaternions, he was crossing the Broome Bridge in Dublin, and scratched the formula in the stone.

To this day it's commemorated by a plaque on the north-west corner under the railing on the bridge. There's an annual commemorative walk over the bridge on October 16.

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In the National University of Ireland in Galway, in the Aras de Brun building, you may find this stone panel:

Hamilton was here

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