Irish Examiner view: Full marks to UCC for honouring Iris Ashley Cummins

The university has named the civil engineering building on the campus after its first female engineering graduate

And Iris Ashley Cummins, born in Glanmire, Cork, in 1894, she was the first woman to graduate with a Bachelor of Engineering from UCC in 1915.

From 1849 until its removal in 1935, the only visible elevation in UCC of a notable female came in the form of a statue of Queen Victoria. 

That has just changed as UCC has named the civil engineering building on the campus after its first female engineering graduate, Iris Ashley Cummins.