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Women on Walls celebrates inspirational female trailblazers
Updated / Monday, 8 Mar 2021
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A collection of commissioned portraits of five inspirational females from the world of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) will be unveiled at DCU today (Monday, March 8th) at the virtual launch of the latest series of Women on Walls at DCU, in celebration of International Women s Day - watch a short documentary about the project above.
Celebrating the creativity of Irish women
News 28 February 2021
This month we have been celebrating the creativity of Irish women, including sharing the stories of Irish women who have created history. We have remembered the designer and architect Eileen Gray; computer programming pioneer Kay McNulty; tennis champion Mabel Cahill; the first woman recognised as a veterinary surgeon in the UK and Ireland, Aleen Cust; the Irish born woman who founded the company that became the Royal Ballet, Dame Ninette de Valois and Countess Constance Markiewicz, whom the journal Świat once described as a ‘modern Irish amazon’.
Their stories are all highlighted in an exhibition called “Blazing a Trail: Lives and Legacies of Irish Diaspora Women”. It celebrates the lives and legacies of 21 pioneering Irish diaspora women of the 19th and 20th centuries who blazed a trail in a wide range of fields. The exhibition is available in Polish translation to interested cultural
75 years ago, the world s first modern computer made its public debut
ENIAC was built to compute gunnery tables
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Seventy five years ago, the world was introduced to ENIAC, the first ever electronic, programmable, general purpose, digital computer, in a demonstration that not only ushered in the first glimmers of the computer age, but also shaped popular conceptions of the computer that continue to this day.
ENIAC is short for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, and though it was closer in its basic design to modern computers, it wasn t the first electronic computer. However, its rivals were all either experiments that ended up in dusty obscurity or ultra top secret projects whose existence wasn t made public until the 1970s.
Virtual tours available from Irish museums right now
Updated / Tuesday, 23 Feb 2021
11:01
Although Irish museums have closed their doors once again, this is a great time to discover what they have to offer online.
Collections from the likes of IMMA and The Hugh Lane can be browsed on their websites. While Marsh s Library and the Library of Trinity College have some of their exhibitions online - and you can take all the time you need to read their featured texts.
You can mark Chinese New Year with our free online exhibition of some early books about China in our collection. The text is available in English or Mandarin - change via the language box at top right of the screen: https://t.co/3NrTTJKZi3pic.twitter.com/MEePIe0MV2