With her debut novel, Holding Her Breath, due for release this week, we spoke to the Arts Council/University College Cork Writer in Residence for 2021, Eimear Ryan, about her career, her writing inspirations, and her advice for emerging artists.  

UCC Film Studies graduate, Shaun O'Connor is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer. His latest short film, 'A White Horse' has secured a place on the Academy Awards’ 2021 longlist. His photography exhibition, ‘Personal Space: Travels in India’ chronicled five months’ solo travel in India, while his films have won accolades at the Cork Film Festival and DC Shorts. His work has been screened on RTE and he has directed and edited music videos for the likes of Julie Feeney and Declan Sinnott. 

The Glucksman at UCC is celebrating having won the Best International Museum Award in a virtual awards ceremony hosted by TV personalities, Philip Mould and Kate Williams.

A multi-million selling US author, whose works incorporating world mythologies have spawned big screen adaptations, is now studying Irish legend and tradition at University College Cork.

New York Times #1 Bestseller Rick Riordan - whose Greek myth-inspired ‘Percy Jackson’ series has been adapted into two blockbuster movies - says he now plans to incorporate Irish legend into his works.

Listen to the podcast Series from the Discipline of Criminology, UCC

Lord David Puttnam joins the podcast to discuss the value of the arts and humanities.

Dr Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, UCC lecturer in Modern Irish, is the winner of the 2020 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for The Coast Road, a bilingual collection of poems.

UCC lecturer in Popular Music Studies, Dr J. Griffith Rollefson, has secured a €2m research grant to undertake the world’s first global study of hip-hop music and culture.

Being at the heart of the American presidential election was just one aspect of UCC graduate Samantha Barry’s job as head of social media at CNN.  The Cork woman tells Clodagh Finn about her meteoric rise to fame in the digital world

UCC/Arts Council Film Artist Alan Gilsenan's Documentary The Great Book of Ireland now available to view on RTÉ player.

Students beginning and returning to education at University College Cork will be able to avail of almost 50 services dedicated to supporting their personal, academic and professional development throughout the new term.

The services and supports, which cover all aspects of student life, have been illustrated by UCC’s Student Experience Office in the form of its very own ‘Support Tree’.

The public is invited to log onto a three-day online centenary conference exploring the events leading up to the death of patriot Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney and the Cork Men’s Gaol Hunger Strike.

Hosted by UCC, and funded by Cork City Council and the Department of Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht, the virtual event has been organised to mark the centenary of the hunger strike of Irish republicans in Brixton Prison and Cork Men’s Gaol.