We are delighted to publish the very first edition of our new Department of Music News Bulletin. Keep up to date with recent Department news as we reflect on a very busy semester!

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Mon 9th at 7:30pm in the Granary Theatre. 

Event is free but ticketed - Link to Book:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-little-bit-of-theatre-tickets-1101211947579

Shows in the Granary Theatre at 7:30 pm

Weds 4th - SOLD OUT

Thurs 5th - tickets available 

·Value: €3000 per scholarship

·You will need to apply for a Taught Masters programme at the Music Department at UCC before you can apply for this scholarship. 

·Deadline: 5pm on Tuesday 15th July 2025

·Questions about this scholarship can be directed to music@ucc.ie

Great to meet students and staff from Presentation Ballyphehane and Glanmire Community College to the Granary Theatre for a talk and workshop. Both schools have been selected to deliver the new Theatre, Drama and Film Studies subject at Leaving Cert level in 2025. The groups of Transition Year students who attended the workshops have expressed an interest in taking up the subject. 

The Women, We Will Rise by Karan Casey 

What would possess a singer to write a play?

The Women, We Will Rise is a theatrical song cycle that highlights the role of defiant Irish women during the revolutionary period and beyond. It places women centre stage and shares through song and story gallant women from Ireland's past, whilst singing into being a vision for the women of the future. 

The production brings to fruition songs and stories about my great grandmother Agnes Ryan of the hotel, a mother of 12 children and a Cumann na mBan member. Other figures from the era, such as the great patriot Kathleen Clarke from Limerick and Countess Markievicz stand alongside and in comradery with women in contemporary Ireland. Keeping an eye on things, as always, is the legendary figure from Irish folklore an Chailleach. 

This presentation will examine the creative process behind writing and producing the play entitled The Women, We Will Rise and will be a mixture of song performance and talking.

Dyson (he/him) is a sound researcher, metalworker, performer and installation artist whose practice operates between critical spatial theory, sound studies, and site-specific interventions in relation to the phenomenology of place and maintenance. 

Join us for a dialogue between the first Film Artist, Carmel Winters, and the latest, Emer Reynolds. All welcome to attend. Please reserve a place at the following Eventbrite page HERE.

In addition to the conferences sustained focus on hauntology and the ghost as symbol for radical social justice, this year’s conference welcomed papers on “The Future of Folklore” and asked delegates to consider how folklore can usefully combat and destabilise systemic injustice.