UCC Arts graduate and Glamour Editor-in-Chief Samantha Barry recently met U.S. First Lady Dr Jill Biden to talk Glamour's College Women of the Year Awards.

In an exclusive interview with Motley.ie, world-renowned author and UCC graduate Rick Riordan spoke about his studies at UCC, the power of mythology and the upcoming Percy Jackson series on Disney+.

A University College Cork student is one of just 40 students from around the world to be selected for an international programme that seeks to empower civic engagement and activism.

In this great vlog, American Student Ambassador Emily Titsworth shows us around her favourite places in Cork! Including a great coffee spot, the beautiful campus at University College Cork and FitzGerald Park.

Virtual spring conferrings will take place on Monday, 15 March 2021 at 3pm for all ceremonies.

The Department of Music UCC has some extremely exciting news! We will be announcing two remarkable developments, which include outstanding financial and resourcing opportunities for students and a major upgrade to the Department’s assets. Any student planning to study music at university - especially those making their CAO choices in the near future need to see this event.

Lois Roberts-Lebbie, who is from Sierra Leone, had her idea of Christmas completely changed by a wonderful experience with a family in Cork

Dr James O'Sullivan (Principal Investigator) and Dr Órla Murphy (Co-Investigator) from the Department of Digital Humanities (School of English & Digital Humanities) at UCC are to lead the Irish contribution to a new project, C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age (IRC/W001489/1)

Scholar, writer and curator Laura Marshall Clark will be joining the English Department during the 2021-2022 academic year.

UCC's current Arts Council Writer-in-Residence Eimear Ryan talks literary beginnings, her new novel Holding Her Breath, the state of the Irish arts post-COVID, and draws a breath between sport and art. In conversation with Alana Daly Mulligan.

• Access granted to one of the world’s largest libraries.
• Major step in deepening of relations between Ireland and Japan.
• Tánaiste and Japanese Ambassador to attend opening.

er latest novel Complicit was a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice, listed among the Best Crime Novels of 2022 by The Irish Times, and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Prize for outstanding second novel.

Skylee Glass is preparing to head home after completing an MA in Applied Psychology in UCC with the help of a Choctaw-Ireland Scholarship. Sarah Horgan hears how the scholarship is strengthening ties between Cork and the Choctaw people and of the strong personal links Skylee built up on Leeside

• New film careers programme for transition year students developed by Lord David Puttnam.
• Film industry experts gathered at UCC to meet students and teachers.

The UCC Creative Writing 10-year anniversary was celebrated this month with an evening of readings in the Aula Maxima by some of the newly published graduates from the MA and PhD programmes.

To mark the anniversary a new scholarship, The Miriam Cotter MA Scholarship in Creative Writing will be awarded to a writer of exceptional promise who comes from a traditionally underrepresented area of society.

• Two UCC projects awarded a combined €4m in funding from European Research Council
• Dr Chiara Bonfiglioli to study transnational women’s activism during the Cold War era
• Dr Aoife Daly to examine growing force of children and youth climate activism

University College Cork (UCC) and the Richard Harris Estate are delighted to announce that the archives of Richard Harris have been donated to UCC.  

Lord David Puttnam, the Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express recently celebrated ten years of his Skibbereen-based company Atticus Education. 

The Glucksman Gallery at University College Cork was announced as European Art Museum 2022 at a gala ceremony at MUDAM (Museum of Modern Art) in Luxembourg over the weekend.

The first ever study of Brexit’s longer-term consequences for the Cork region notes that the sectors in the South West region which bore the brunt of the fallout from Britain leaving the European Union (EU) included agriculture, finance and industry.

A Sligo native, Brídín is carrying on the tradition of Irish music into the fourth generation of her family. Over the years she has achieved many accolades for her musical ability with recent prime time TV performances on The Late Late Show and The Tommy Tiernan Show. Her love of music led her to pursue a musical career, having studied music at UCC and later achieving a masters in music and performance. 

Stories of Vikings, monarchs and thrones may dominate streaming services, but an international team of researchers has found that a third of tales of medieval heroism and chivalry, more than 90% of European manuscripts from the Middle Ages and over 3,000 medieval Irish-language manuscripts have been lost over time.

The College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, and the School of Film, Music, and Theatre, in association with the Arts Council, are pleased to announce the appointment of the renowned musician, dancer, and composer, Caitlín Nic Gabhann, as the UCC Traditional Artist in Residence for 2022.

The School of English is delighted to announce that Cathy Sweeney is the 2022 Arts Council Writer In Residence.