Trinity’s Long Room honours influential women in history

Irish scientist is among four women commemorated on International Day of Women and Girls in Science

Four statues honouring influential women were unveiled in Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library last week, on the UN’s International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

The statues, representing scientist Rosalind Franklin, folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, mathematician Ada Lovelace and women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, now sit alongside 40 marble sculptures of men such as Homer, Shakespeare, Sir Rowan Hamilton and Dean Jonathan Swift. They are displayed within the library’s Long Room, which is a major tourist attraction in Dublin.