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Elizabeth Yeats, artist and teacher in the arts and crafts tradition

Billy Shortall.

The Dun Emer, and later Cuala Industries were pioneering female-led studios in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. They promoted handmade work, wove beautiful carpets, produced exquisite needlecraft, and printed and bound beautiful books. They served the domestic and business market and they produced liturgical art objects. It was a collaboration of artists and designers using local Irish materials. It is worth quoting at length from the studios’ 1904 prospectus which rhymed with the ideals of the wider A&C Movement,

Everything as far as possible is Irish: the paper, the books, the linen of the embroidery and the wool of the tapestry and carpets. The designs are also of the spirit and tradition of the country. The education of the work girls is also part of the idea – they are thought to paint and their brains and fingers are made more active and understanding…

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‘If a female had once passed the gate …’ : Launch of Trinity Women Graduates Centenary Exhibition.

Trinity Women Graduates (formerly Dublin University Women Graduates Association) has partnered with the Library of Trinity College to present an exhibition photographs, records and other historical documents from the Trinity Women Graduates’ archive and the College Records in the Long Room of the Old Library.

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A brief history of women in Trinity College Dublin: Trinity Women Graduates Archive Project Blog

Photograph of women students of Trinity College Dublin, Hilary Term in front of The Old Library Building, 16 February 1922.

To mark International Women’s Day and Women’s History month we have another project blog from the Trinity Women Graduates collection (TCD MUN SOC WGA).   In Trinity College Dublin women were not always “equally admissible to men students.” This blog will chronicle the achievements and hard-fought victories of women in Trinity to be acknowledged as equal citizens, students, academics, and graduates.

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“If a female had once passed the gate”: Trinity Women Graduates Archive Project

Research Collections is delighted to announce the start of the Trinity Women Graduates Archive Project. This project marks the centenary of the Trinity Women Graduates Association (TWG) in 2022. The records of the association are currently being catalogued as part of a Virtual Trinity Library project to make them accessible to researchers and students.  

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