In this ‘decade of centenaries’, numerous commentators have defined the 1916 Rising from the perspective of ‘professional history’, confining their interpretations to political outcomes and scales of revolutionary violence.  

UCC and Tyndall National Institute have appointed Prof Stefan Andersson-Engels to lead a new €6m SFI funded biophotonics research programme to develop further Ireland’s medical device and diagnostics research capability.

A cookbook for cancer patients experiencing difficulties in chewing or swallowing their food is available free of charge to cancer patients throughout Ireland. 

The deliberate burial of the graveyard at the prison on Cork’s Spike Island under many metres of earth in the 1860’s erased a dark chapter in the island’s history from memory, a new book by UCC lecturer Dr Barra O’Donnabhain and Cal McCarthy reveals. 

The stories of the extraordinary Irish women behind the design of the Honan Chapel textiles and their contribution to Ireland’s Arts and Crafts Movement have been largely ignored, according to Virginia Teehan, Director of Cultural Projects at UCC.

UCC Professors Justin D. Holmes and Geoffrey Roberts have been elected as new members of the Royal Irish Academy.

Complex detective work and the invention of new genetic identification methods were required to find and identify the body of 1916 leader, Thomas Kent.

Young inventors and entrepreneurs from across Ireland have started a week-long Winners’ Bootcamp at UCC, as part of the Student Enterprise Awards programme.

Ireland’s first major carbon-neutral conference, the International Energy Workshop, takes place this week in University College Cork.

Grace Neville, Emeritus Professor of French at UCC, has been named Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by French Ambassador to Ireland Jean-Pierre Thébault.