A proletarian ode to a bygone Vigo, the industrial heart of Galicia, Menéndez’s tour-de-force debut, Steel Glaciers, fictionalises the 1997 campaign against privatisation by the city’s shipyard workers. In a fragmented yet cohesive narrative that calls to mind the intimacy of camcorder home movies, the vignettes are narrated by one of the workers’ sons, Pedro, who invests his memories of youth with the epic sweep of myth and the joyous melancholy of a necessary struggle doomed to failure. Poignant and frenetic, with a remarkably assured voice and a keen eye for the minute details that bring people and place to life, Steel Glaciers is the work of a major new talent in Galician literature.

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies warmly welcomes you to the event

What Remains in Translation, with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers

Chaired by Martín Veiga

Wednesday 8th October 2025

17:00

CACSSS Seminar Room — O’Rahilly Building (ORB G.27)

Galician author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers in conversation about What Remains (Bullaun Press 2025), the English translation of Lamela’s debut novel Ninguén queda, which received prestigious awards such as the 2022 Premio de la Crítica in Spain and the Premio Ojo Crítico in 2023. Lamela and Rogers will read excerpts from the novel in Galician and in English translation.

Martín Veiga participou no congreso titulado ‘The Reasons of Rhyme’ coa presentación dun relatorio sobre a rima na poesía medieval galego-portuguesa titulado ‘Figures of Order: On Leixaprén, Rhyme and Repetition’. 

Martín Veiga entrevistou o escritor galego Xabier Cid durante a súa visita para participar no festival literario Cork World Book Fest. A conversa xirou arredor do seu libro 10000 millas de andar na bici, do que Cid leu fragmentos en galego acompañado pola lectura das traducións ao inglés por parte de Keith Payne. 

Martín Veiga presentou e moderou un coloquio e recital de poesía galega e irlandesa no marco dos Encontros Atlánticos Galicia-Irlanda organizados conxuntamente polo Consello da Cultura Galega e o Instituto Cervantes de Dublín. As poetas participantes foron Alba Cid e Daniel Salgado, por parte de Galicia, e Keith Payne e Grace Wells, poetas conectados con Galicia e Irlanda. Os Encontros consistiron nun conxunto de actividades sobre literatura, lingua, música e audiovisual que se desenvolveron os días 25, 26 e 27 de marzo de 2025 no auditorio do Instituto Cervantes de Dublín. 

A escritora María Lado visitou a UCC para ofrecer un seminario sobre poesía galega actual no que reflexionou sobre traxectorias, tendencias e desafíos no contexto da poesía galega de hoxe. Ademais, o venres 22 de novembro, María Lado participou no festival poético Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, que se celebra anualmente na cidade de Cork.

Veiga organizou e coordinou este simposio sobre poesía e tradución na Galicia contemporánea que se celebrou na UCC coa participación de poetas e tradutores como Isaac Xubín, Keith Payne e Luisa Castro. Acompañando a presentación da tradución ao inglés do libro Baleas e baleas, de Luisa Castro, Veiga presentou un relatorio titulado ‘Tropes of Mobility and Remoteness in Luisa Castro’s Baleas e baleas’.

Veiga participou nesta xornada de investigación, organizada conxuntamente polas universidades da Coruña e Vigo, convidado a pronunciar a conferencia de clausura, que se titulou ‘A tradución literaria como práctica creativa e investigación académica’.

Xunto con outras poetas, músicos e artistas, Veiga participou nunha lectura poética como resposta a unha exposición de fotografías de paisaxes de Connemara do fotógrafo alemán Walter Pfeiffer. O evento celebrouse na Boole Library da UCC.

Seguindo unha tradición de hai xa varios anos, o Centro coordinou a participación dunha escritora galega no festival literario Cork World Book Fest, que se celebra en Cork na primavera. Nesta ocasión, a novelista e poeta Susana Sanches Arins participou nun evento moderado por Veiga titulado ‘The Many Voices of Spain’, no que presentou a tradución ao inglés da súa novela seique (and they say).

Veiga participou no cuarto congreso da TSNI, celebrado na University of Galway, co relatorio titulado ‘Translating Tales of Transformation: A Contemporary Selkie Legend in Galician’. Ademais, o Centro coordinou a participación neste congreso da escritora galega Susana Sanches Arins nunha mesa redonda titulada ‘Creativity in Literary Translation Practice’.

Veiga participou como poñente no simposio ‘Eco-poetry as Activism, Climate Action and Interdisciplinary Environmental Knowledge-Making’, celebrado na UCC, co relatorio titulado ‘Thinking Poetry Ecocritically’.

Martín Veiga foi convidado a impartir unha das conferencias plenarias do congreso ‘The Animal in Ireland, Real and Imagined’ na Julius-Maximilians-Universität, universidade situada na cidade alemá de Würzburg. A conferencia propuxo unha comparación entre poesía galega e irlandesa baixo o título ‘Nonhuman Animals and Posthuman Restitution in Contemporary Irish and Galician Poetry’.

Martín Veiga foi un dos organizadores do simposio internacional ‘Uncharted Territories: Contemporary Ecopoetics in/and Translation’, celebrado na University College Cork. Ademais de participar na organización e coordinación das xornadas, Veiga presentou o relatorio titulado ‘Galician Poetry and the Chronotopic Imagination’. O Centro coordinou a participación no simposio de dous poñentes con relatorios de temática galega: Lucia Cernadas Varela (Oxford) coa comunicación ‘Charting the Way(s) from English to Galician: Poetry Translations between 2010 and 2019’ e o tradutor Isaac Xubín, que presentou a súa tradución ao galego da novela Mamut, de Eva Baltasar, xunto coa propia autora e a súa tradutora ao inglés, Julia Sanches. Ademais, Xubín ofreceu un obradoiro de tradución literaria coa profesora e tradutora Helena Buffery (UCC).  

Martín Veiga presentou e moderou unha mesa redonda no Instituto Cervantes de Dublín arredor dun proxecto audiovisual consistente na adaptación a varios formatos da cantiga I do trobador Martin Codax. Este proxecto, titulado ‘Cantiga I: Tonnta Farraigí Vigo’, conecta a Galicia medieval con Irlanda a través das linguas, a música e a poesía. Coa participación de Katerina García, Liam Ó Maonlaí e Jaro Waldeck.

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies, in conjunction with the research cluster 'Translation and Creative Practice' (CASiLaC, UCC), warmly invites you to a seminar with Galician writer and translator Xavier Queipo.

Xavier Queipo, the author of several novels, short story and poetry collections, is also a renowned and award-winning translator, having brought into Galician the work of writers such as Amin Maalouf and Hervé Guivert (from French) and Joseph Conrad and James Joyce (from English). His own works have been translated into different languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian. In this seminar, Queipo will reflect on the role of translation in minoritised contexts, both in relation to his work as a translator and with regards to his own experience of being translated into other languages.

Este xoves 6 de abril rematamos o curso cunha sesión de cinema galego. BHSC 3.04, 1-3PM.

All welcome!

Xesús Fraga was born in London, but later moved to Coruña and Betanzos. He is one of only four Galician-language writers to have won the Spanish National Book Award for Fiction, which he received for his novel Virtues (and Mysteries) (2020). A graduate in journalism from Salamanca University, he has worked for the newspaper La Voz de Galicia in the sections ‘Galicia’ and ‘Culture’. He writes both adult and young adult fiction. Virtues (and Mysteries) also received the Blanco Amor and the Galician Critics’ Awards. Other titles include Tute for Four (2000), A-Z (2003) and Solimán (2004). His two YA titles, The White Elephant (2013) and Reo (2015), received the Sarmiento and the Queen Lupa Awards respectively and deal with the transition from adolescence to adulthood. Fraga has translated important works into Galician, including The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

Book Launch: Tortuga. The Irish Tortoise. Tales from the Camino de Santiago

October 10, 2019. 6pm

An Seomra Caidrimh

Each language has a value in itself that transcends a mere collection of interchangeable words from one code to another. Each language has a particular way of analysing and reflecting reality, of moulding it in thought. This is the basic precept of what is known as linguistic relativity and according to this, the fewer languages spoken, the poorer our view of the world as a species will be. Leaving behind early stages of this approach such as the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the principle of Boas-Jakobson suggests that different languages influence their speaker’s minds, however not due to what each language allows to think but rather due to the patterns of information each language habitually obliges people to think about. Furthermore, according to Guy Deutscher (2010), speech habits, which are imprinted from an early age, can create habits of mind that have far-reaching consequences beyond speaking, as they affect orientation skills and even patterns of memory.

“Como eu vexo e eu vi” Alfonso X in the Cantigas de Santa María is the title of the Seminar that will be offered by Manuel Magán Abollo, researcher by the University of Santiago de Compostela next 8th of February at ORB 1.24 (4pm).

 The journal Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies, edited by David Miranda-Barreiro (Bangor University) and Martín Veiga (University College Cork), celebrates its 10th anniversary with the publication of a special issue (H) on theatre studies entitled 'Chamada a escena: o teatro galego no século XXI' and edited by Iolanda Ogando González (Universidad de Extremadura) and Elisa Serra Porteiro (University College Cork). Congratulations!

Irish Centre for Galician Studies, University College Cork

O'Rahilly Building G27a (Mary Ryan Meeting Room)

Tuesday 9th October 2018

This symposium seeks to explore some of the multiple facets that define contemporary Galician poetry and will provide an overview of its most innovative critical and poetic discourses: from an analysis of domesticity and the value of home in the poetry of Lupe Gómez, one of the most radical voices in Galician poetry today, to the transgressive rewritings of the medieval Galician-Portuguese songbooks carried out in Erín Moure's poetry; from the impact of a new generation of young poets that has emerged in recent years, effectively conquering important spaces within the field, to the dynamic notion of poetry translation as creative practice. Speakers at the symposium include academics, poets and translators.

October 4th. O Rahilly Building. First Floor 1.24

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies is delighted with the upcoming publication of the book byour director Dr Martín Veiga. This poetry collection, called "Diary of Crosses Green" and launched by FB Publishers, is now available to English speaking audiences thanks to the translation by Keith Payne. 

April 27th — 12:45 — North Wing Room

 The Irish Centre for Galician Studies in collaboration with the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival presented a talk about werewolves in Galician Folklore and Literature.

Dr. Xosé Manuel Sánchez Rei will explore the links between Galician and Irish traditional music.

Dr John Rutherford will offer different approaches to the translation of Iberian poetry

Friday 1 December, 12-2pm – The River Room (Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC)

Thursday 30 November, 5:00 pm – The Glucksman

November  – ORB. 124

Friday 17th November – 16:00 – O'Rahilly Building 1.24

Dr Martín Veiga, lecturer in the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and director of the Irish Centre for Galician Studies, was awarded this year's prestigious award Pedrón de Honra for a career dedicated to the promotion and visibilization of Galician language and literature abroad.

The Drowned Days / Os días afogados

A powerful documentary from Galicia that explores the role of home made movies in creating a portrait of community under threat.

The Irish Centre for Galician Studies is delighted to invite you to the half-day event 'Galician Sounds: Music and Poetry in Contemporary Galicia', which will take place on Wednesday the 22nd of March 2017 in room ORBG27b (Mary Ryan Room).

Ecocritical Encounters: Women and Nature in Galician and Irish Cultural Production

 Wednesday 3rd – Thursday 4th May 2017

Geographies in Tune - Music by Mano Panforreteiro

Coughlans (Douglas Street), 7th of December @7pm

Issue F of Galicia 21. Journal of Contemporary Galician Studies has been published on the journal's website

The Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies and the Irish Centre for Galician Studies are delighted to present A dozen Galician women, a research seminar on Galician female writers by Galician poet Elvira Ribeiro.

All welcome!

Galician guitarist and researcher Samuel Diz (Tui, 1986) is coming to UCC on Thursday the 10th of December for a day of activities related to Galician classical music.

28th April 2015

1st  of April 2015

Monday March the 23rd – Kane Building B10A – 18:30 h

Monday March the 16th – Kane Building B10A – 18:30 h

Monday March the 2nd – Kane Building B10A – 18:00 h

Friday 30th January – 5:30pm ORB, Social Area, First Floor, Block B.

Book launch

November 17th – Instituto Cervantes in Dublin

Coughlans (Douglas Street) – Tuesday 18th November – 18:00

Friday 17th October 2014 - Venue: ORB. 124

17-09-2014

Following on from his previous visit in 2008, the Galician-born Brussels-based writer and translator Xavier Queipo returns to University College Cork on Friday 26th September.

Research Seminar: "Ríos, fontes, mares, océanos: Hydropoetics and the Galician Cultural Imagination"

The Wind Factory

Research Seminar: "Galician, Overpopulated Language"

Symposium: Translation and Nation

MAGOSTO

Symposium: New Perspectives on Galician Music

Research Seminar

Symposium: Invisible Borders

Éigse na Brídeoige, Waterville

MAGOSTO