Eleonora Fleury (1860-1940) was the first female medical graduate of the Royal University of Ireland; she graduated in 1890 with first-class honors and a first-class exhibition. She had her clinical instruction at the Richmond Hospital in Dublin and the London School of Medicine for Women. She was also the first female member of the Medico Psychological Association (now the Royal College of Psychiatrists), having been proposed as such by member Conolly Norman (whose protégé she was) in 1893, and elected by 23 votes to 7 in 1894, after the association rules had been changed to allow women as members. After graduating medical school, she worked at the Homerton Fever Hospital in London for a year, and then worked at the Richmond Asylum (later called Grangegorman) in Ireland for 27 years. She