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Meet Sir Brendan Parsons, the 7th Earl of Rosse and reach back into Irish and Astronomical history at Birr Castle in County Offally, the birth place of the 3rd Earl of Rosse who in the 1840's invented a telescope with a 6 foot in diameter mirror which could see further and more clearly into space than any previous. 

Mark Leslie, Managing Director of Martello Media.

Click here to listen to a Travelers411 Online Exclusive with Mark Leslie, CEO of Martello Media in Dublin, Ireland. Martello Media designs interactive exhibits such as the Cliffs of Moher Visitors Center Experience, Black Rock Castle Observatory, W.B. Yeats exhibit at the National Library in Dublin, 2010 World Expo Irish Pavilion and the Guiness Storehouse interactive experience in Dublin.