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Up Periscope
Sir Howard Grubb (1844-1931) who lived in Longford Terrace, Monkstown invented the periscope which could be used in wartime submarines during World War I. He had worked with his father's firm, the Grubb Telescope Company.

Grubb telescopes were also supplied to the Dunsink and Armagh observatories. Incidentally, another Irishman, John Philip Holland, from Clare first came up with the idea of submarines in the 1870s. 

Star Struck
Dame Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1848–1915) who lived in 23 Longford Terrace, Monkstown, invented photographic spectroscopy, which is the analysis of electromagnetic radiation to determine the properties of an astronomical object.

Her work centred on the study of the Orion Nebula, which showed that the nebula consisted of gases rather than stars as previously believed.

Missionary Link
Mother Mary Martin (1892–1975), the Foundress of Medical Missionaries of Mary, lived in Greenbank, Monkstown, which was a stately home on the site where Carrickbrennan Lawn is situated today.

She volunteered as a nurse during World War I, then was a lay missionary in Africa, and by 1937 she had made her Profession of Vows and then went about setting up the missionary order which now works in 16 countries.

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