First women graduates of the Royal University of Ireland 1884

In 1879 the Royal University of Ireland was founded in accordance with the University Education (Ireland) Act 1879 as an examining and degree-awarding university. ​
The university became the first university in Ireland that could grant degrees to women on a par with those granted to men; Isabella Mulvany, Headmistress of Alexandra College, (back row second on the right) was one of the first to be awarded a degree in 1884 along with Jessie Twemlow, Emily Ebarle in the front row, Louisa McIntosh, Eliza Wilkins and Alice Oldham in the centre and Charlotte Taylor, Annie M Sands, Isabella Mulvany and Marion Kelly in the back row.