From top: The all-male Pantheon (of scholars) in the Library of the Long Room Trinity College, Dublin.
Finally.
The Long Room (Trinity College)
Pics: Pinterest
Everything. As It Happens.
From top: The all-male Pantheon (of scholars) in the Library of the Long Room Trinity College, Dublin.
Finally.
The Long Room (Trinity College)
Pics: Pinterest
They should put one up of Prendergast’s ex-wife. I’d say she had to put up with a lot.
Salty
Marie Curie.
Gave her life using her own discoveries to help others.
Ada Lovelace, a programmer before there was a machine to program for. Or so I understand. I don’t really know how to make maths go.
She was helping Charles Babbage make his Analytical Engine which used punch cards for their instructions (or program). It got this idea from the textile industry, which used them for patterns on large knitting and other machines, and the music industry, which used them in pianos and hurdy gurdies.
As to making maths go, I suggest you don’t send your children to this school…
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/db9axd/found_in_a_childrens_maths_workbook/
And she was Lord Byron’s daughter
I had forgotten that! Her mother was also a mathematician, if memory serves. Maybe science is an art of a form after all!
Right, so let’s get this straight – cash-strapped, student number-cutting, hazing-central, fraud-hit, rankings-tumbler, €2m-apartment-for-Provost, Chinese spy Huawei -dependent, shady research Trinity certainly has its priorities in the right place.
But, to be constructive, maybe a bust of the editor of the newsletter which exposed the hazing earlier this year? Mind you, she’s not deceased, but I wouldn’t be surprised to wake up some day to learn she’d been poisoned with HIV butter.
Harsh.
Countess Markievicz should be right up there with Trinity’s republican credentials.
Why people have to be dead before we celebrate them beats me.
Plus, what’s the definition of a scholar? Trevor West?
A female bust?
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Stop that!
Prendergast started it!
Could be a self portrait Cian ;-)
How will they get the proportions right if she’s dead? Guesswork, or what?
Well if my top half is of no interest I’d like to see Eileen Gray
Good one! And as there are a few centuries of men to catch up with, this should not be an ‘ only one need apply’ issue :-)
I’m all for displaying women’s busts..
Alan Turing, Susan Sontag, Simonede Beauvoir, Mrs Beaton …
Natalie Portman has a degree in psychology or something and I’d say she’d look cracking in bust form
Incidentally: who’s getting the shove to make room for these women? I nominate this Anftotle fella, never even heard of him
Marian Finucane, broke boundaries in the radio field for women. Failing that surely with Trinity’s ethos, Queen Elizabeth or Maggie Thatcher?
Twink – it should be a bust of Twink,
no way, It should be Mr Pussy!!!
Women only?