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The life of Alice Perry, the first woman in Ireland and the United Kingdom to graduate with an engineering degree, is a significant chapter in the history of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).

It was one of a host of medals for Galway athletes over the two days of competition.

University of Galway has this week announced a series of creative initiatives to mark a milestone anniversary in its history - the university is celebrating 175 years since the arrival of its first students in 1849.

Decorated wartime codebreaker and noted musicologist Emily Anderson will be subject of a public talk at 8pm this Monday, March 11, at the Harbour Hotel.

Looking at the photograph of Emily Anderson on this page, the only formal portrait of her other than some distant group shots, it is difficult to imagine that this interesting Galway woman was probably the best codebreaker in the British Secret Service during the First and Second World Wars.

Renewed calls have been made for a memorial bench for War of Independence IRA leader, Michael Moran, to be erected on the grounds of NUI Galway.

For most of December 1920, Thomas Hynes, quartermaster of the Galway IRA, was in Queen’s College Galway - today's NUIG - hiding from Crown forces, sleeping on top of bookshelves, and assisting in the making of grenades.

Sinn Féin’s declaration of an Irish Republic on January 21 1919, along with the killing of two RIC officers in Tipperary by the IRA on the same day, signalled the start of a guerrilla war for Irish independence.

Cillin Greene of Galway City Harriers endured a heartbreaking initiation on the European senior stage at the recent indoor championships in Glasgow.

A public lecture and the launch of a new mini documentary on NUI Galway graduate and former city engineer of San Francisco, Michael Maurice O’Shaughnessy will form part of two days of activities marking his legacy.