UCC honors Iris Ashley Cummins, first female graduate engineer of 1915

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CO. CORK, Ireland - University College Cork has celebrated its first female graduate engineer, Iris Ashley Cummins, naming its civil engineering building after her.Iris, a talented international hockey player, graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in 1915 and became the Irish Land Commission's first female land surveyor and the Institution of Civil Engineers of Ireland's first female Associate Member.T

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