I find that the busiest times are often the most rewarding, and that has certainly been the case over the last few weeks.... 

Between this and last semester, the Film and Screen Media department hosted a two-part masterclass from filmmaker Brian Deane, who has made acclaimed features and shorts including Volkswagen Joe (2013), First Love (2014), and Blight (2015)...

On November 27th, the Film and Screen Media department held a masterclass with Maurice Seezer, an award-winning songwriter, musician, and composer...

On November 26th, Dr. Zelie Asava lectured in the Film and Screen Media department about the representation of people of color and interracial relationships in cinema...

January was a very eventful month for me! I returned to Cork on January 12th, and the semester started on January 14th....

I’ve certainly had no trouble filling my time the past few weeks! On Monday, the 19th of November, I attended a ceremony in celebration of my MA Excellence Scholarship...

On November 17th, I saw One Million American Dreams as part of the Cork Film Festival...

Cathal Black is one of the most significant artists from Ireland’s “First Wave” of independent filmmaking during the 1970s and 1980s....

In one of my favorite poems, DH Lawrence’s When I Went to the Film, Lawrence describes his experience of going to the cinema, where he “saw all the black-and-white feelings that nobody felt/And heard the audience sighing and sobbing with all the emotions that none of them felt.”...

On November 9th and 10th, I accompanied Dr. Gwenda Young and UCC’s Film Practitioner Dan O’Connell to Youghal, a small town in East Cork.

The week of the Cork International Film Festival was one of the busiest, most exciting, and most rewarding weeks I have ever had...

On Saturday, November 17th, I saw One Million American Dreams, a new documentary by Northern Irish director Brendan Byrne...

One of the last films I saw as part of the Cork International Film Festival was Jibril, the first feature of German director Henrika Kull....

Gabrielle Ulubay: “First of all, thank you very much for speaking with me today.
Philip O’Connor: “Thank you!”....

On Thursday evening, I saw Maeve as part of the Cork film festival. This 1981 film was made by Pat Murphy,...

On Friday, the 16th of November, I attended a screening of Crystal Swan followed by a Q&A...

After seeing Burning on Tuesday, I went to the historic St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral...

On Tuesday, I saw the Irish premiere of Chang-dong Lee’s film Burning...

On Wednesday evening, I saw Irish director Cathal Black’s...

On Monday, as part of the Cork International Film Festival, I saw 'The State Against Mandela and the Others',...

One of the first films I viewed for the Cork International Film Festival was Kirill Serebrennikov’s 'Leto'...

Friday night, I attended the premiere of the Cork International Film Festival...

Last weekend, I was able to partake in one of the most popular festivals in Ireland: Cork’s Jazz Weekend

I started off this week with an Improv show at The Roundy, a pub not far from UCC...

This week was an embodiment of all the reasons I came to Cork, and UCC in particular, to study...