Trinity commissions four female busts for Long Room
Posted on: 26 November 2020
Trinity College Dublin is to commission four new sculptures representing women scholars for display in the Long Room of the Old Library.
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November 2020
The four new busts will represent scientist Rosalind Franklin, folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Lady Augusta Gregory, mathematician Ada Lovelace and writer and pioneering women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. These subjects have been chosen from a list of more than 500 suggestions.
There are currently 40 marble busts - all of men - in the Long Room. This is the first time in over a century that the university has commissioned new sculptures for this area.
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