Thread by @IrishWomenin, Ottilie Patterson (born 1932) grew up in Northern Ireland. In the early [...]

Ottilie Patterson (born 1932) grew up in Northern Ireland. In the early 1950s she moved to London to become a professional jazz singer. Muddy Waters, then at the peak of his stellar career, was one of her many admirers. More here ---> https://buff.ly/2L9cK8Z
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Betty "Gerry" Hughes was born in Dublin in 1937 and she grew up in Inchicore.
Betty started to play camogie as a child, and immediately showed great talent and determination.
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She made her inter-county debut in Blue in 1954 against Antrim and played up until 1963. During those years, she won nine All-Ireland titles, including twice as captain in 1961 and 1962.
Betty was noted not just for her sporting prowess, but also for her sense of fairness.
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In 1961, as captain of the winning All-Ireland side, she handed the O'Duffy Cup to her co-player Kay Mills as Kay was picking up her 15th Senior All-Ireland medal that day and it was widely known it was Kay's final game.
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In December 2018, Betty was honoured by The Echo Sports Hall of Fame with an award marking her part in Dublin's great era of camogie. Surrounded by former players and her family, she received a standing ovation.
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Sheila Christina Tinney was born in 1918. She was one of only eight girls in her Leaving Certificate year in the whole country to get honours in maths.
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In 1938, she graduated in maths from University College Dublin and in 1941, received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh. The same year, she became an assistant lecturer at UCD, and was also appointed to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Over the next years, Sheila worked in the area of quantum physics with some of the most celebrated scholars in the field. In the academic year '48/9 she worked as a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Albert Einstein taught. 3/7 #NollaigNamBan

In 1949, the Royal Irish Academy started admitting #women as members, and Sheila was one of the first four. She was also the first person at UCD to teach #quantummechanics.
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Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger described her as ‘among the best equipped and most successful of the younger generation of #physicists in this country’.
Despite her incredible achievements, because she was a woman, Sheila was passed over for promotion early in her career.
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A younger and much less qualified man was given the position she had applied for. Throughout her career, Sheila supported her female colleagues, and served as a mentor to many younger women academics.
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Sheila retired in 1979 and died in 2010. In 2016, the RIA commissioned a portrait of her for their wall, and in 2018, #UCD erected a plaque in her honour.
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Cecil Frances Alexander's (born Dublin 1818) work is among some of the most renowned popular religious music in the English language including All Things Bright & Beautiful and Once in David's Royal City.
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