Inspiring UCC graduate is the first woman to have a campus building named after her 

Iris Ashley Cummins: Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from UCC in 1915.

To mark International Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, University College Cork has named the civil engineering building after its first female engineering graduate, Iris Ashley Cummins.

It is the first time a building on campus has been named after a woman, but it is expected other female pioneers will be honoured in the same way as part of the university’s stated aim to place equality at the heart of its activities.