University College Cork (UCC) has unveiled a new series of female-focused portraits as part of the Accenture Women on Walls exhibit.<\/p>\n
The portraits of 11 trailblazing women from, or with links to, the Munster region include faces such as Edna O\u2019Brien, Joanne O\u2019Riordan, and Nano Nagle.<\/p>\n
The collection was officially unveiled this week at a ceremony in UCC\u2019s Aula Maxima, where the portraits will now be displayed as part of the UCC art collection.<\/p>\n
More than 600 submissions were received in 2024 following a call for nominations, with the 11 subjects then selected by a panel of UCC staff and student leaders.<\/p>\n
The commissioned portraits were created by Irish-based artists Gerry Davis, Vanessa Jones, Vera Klute, and Julianne Guinee, selected following a competitive open call for artists led by Business to Arts.<\/p>\n
The 11 women are Edna O\u2019Brien, Nano Nagle, Joanne O\u2019Riordan, Brigid Carmody, Mary Crilly, Myra Cullinane, Evelyn Grant, Naomi Masheti, Patricia Sheahan, Caitr\u00edona Twomey, and Dola Twomey.<\/p>\n
UCC president, Professor John O\u2019Halloran, said the university is \u201cdeeply proud to unveil these portraits of extraordinary women at UCC\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach of these trailblazers has shaped our society with courage, conviction, and a vision for a more inclusive and just world,\u201d said Prof O\u2019Halloran.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n \u201cThey have broken barriers, challenged convention, and redefined what leadership looks like.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cBy placing their portraits at the heart of our campus, we honour their remarkable legacy and reaffirm our commitment to inspiring future generations to lead with purpose, compassion, and courage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Accenture Ireland managing director and inclusion and diversity lead Michelle Cullen said the exhibit is \u201cabout who we see, and who we celebrate, in our public institutions\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo often, women\u2019s contributions go unseen and uncelebrated,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese magnificent portraits of 11 remarkable Munster women help redress that imbalance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University College Cork (UCC) has unveiled a new series of female-focused portraits as part of the Accenture Women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,61,60,43,24554],"class_list":["post-165464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-ucc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}