This October, Professor Mel Mercier will lead the Irish Gamelan Orchestra (IGO) and special guests in GUIDING BELLS, a musical celebration of his contribution to artistic life and education in Cork and Ireland.

Mary P. Murphy, Maynooth University and author of Creating an Ecosocial Welfare Future (2023, Policy Press)

Earlier this summer, second-year BA Irish and Economics student Jack Fitzgerald packed his bags and travelled to the USA for an exciting internship courtesy of Project Children. Jack is of 14 current interns in this unique programme spread across New York, Pennsylvania and Colorado.

• Expert in international migration studies secures €2.5m ERC Advanced Grant.
• The grant will support a global study of international migration and mobility.
• The UCC project highlights the importance of humanities and social sciences research in a rapidly changing world.

IMMERSE End of Project Ireland Conference

Congratulations to the editorial team of Double Space, who have just launched the journal's second issue.

We are delighted to see Department of Theatre graduate Leah McNamara starring in a leading role in the upcoming Sky Max series, Then You Run.

The College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences at University College Cork conferred the first group of graduates from the Digital Egypt Builders Initiative with an MA in Digital Cultures on Saturday 17th June 2023. Eighteen students were conferred at a conferring ceremony in Cairo.

A collaboration between UCC students, the Heritage Council and Cork City Council was recently celebrated at the launch of two Collaborative Town Centre Health Check (CTCHC) summary reports.

The School of Film, Music and Theatre, which hosts a collective of world-leading experts in the creative arts, recently launched the exciting Film, Music and Theatre (FMT) Doctoral School.

Two professors from University College Cork (UCC) were today elected to the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), the highest academic honour in Ireland. The UCC professors newly elected to the RIA are Professor Maggie O’Neill and Professor Chris Lynch.

UCC Creative is once again hosting this event for the first time since the pandemic

Diane Sheey, BA Arts International student, is one of five national awardees of the prestigious Iveagh Fellowship Programme for 2023

Department of French

• Munyurangabo Benda, Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, UK
• Caroline Williamson Sinalo, UCC, Ireland
• Claver Irakoze, Aegis Trust, Rwanda

Friday 22nd September is Culture Night and it’s a fantastic opportunity to explore and enjoy cultural attractions in Cork and beyond. From dance and theatre to food and heritage there is a virtual cornucopia of events to choose from.

Over at Cork Opera House, This House, A Home is an audio performance created as part of a Masters by Research studentship with UCC and Cork Opera House by Angela O’Callaghan, in collaboration with the Lantern Project and its participants.

School of Irish Learning

Tuesday 26th September, 6.30 - 7.30 pm

Everyman Theatre bar, 15 MacCurtain Street, Cork, T23EO94

Tuesday 26th September, 2-4pm

The Hub Room 172 Shtepps

Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

Jenny Butler, CACSSS Rossana Henriques, SEFS

• New exhibit celebrates life of Professor Jan Łukasiewicz, Polish genius of Logic, philosopher, and post-war refugee in Ireland.
• Ambassador-Designate of the Republic of Poland to Ireland, His Excellency Professor Arkady Rzegocki attends exhibition launch.
• “He was a refugee like the Ukrainians today”.

Sept 22 – Nov 17, 2023

Joe Humphreys (Irish Times)

6pm, Tues 14 November

The eighth annual public lecture series of the Centre for Local and Regional Governance (CLRG) takes places in UCC on the night of Thursday 9 November, under the theme of ‘In Defence of Councillors’.

Konstantinos Thomaidis

A classic film from the silent era will have a gala screening in Cork next week – almost 100 years after it first captivated Leeside audiences in one of the city’s former cinemas.

Tue 21 Nov @ 2pm & Wed 22 Nov @ 2pm

Professor Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University (USA)

 UCC Event with TUSLA Child And Family Agency

UCC is the official Academic Partner of the 68th Cork International Film Festival, and the university has collaborated across many stands of this year’s festival. 

Dr Adam Hanna, Lecturer in Irish Literature in the School of English and Digital Humanities, will be speaking at an event in Seanad Éireann to mark the centenary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to W. B. Yeats.

Last week, The Festival of Social Sciences, UCC Futures – Collective Social Futures first event took place. The festival comprised a full day symposium showcasing social science research across UCC, an engaging evening of music and spoken word performances and a book launch.

The UCC Puttnam Scholars 2022/23 recently screened their short film ‘Close Shave’ at Cork International Film Festival.