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325:(RIA) threw up legal obstacles and did not bow to the inevitable until 1949 when it finally admitted four womenâone of them Sheila Tinney. In 2016 the RIA honoured Tinney by hanging her portrait along with 11 other female academic leaders on its walls.
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in just two years, is believed to make her the first Irish-born and -raised woman to receive a doctorate in the mathematical sciences.
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