Exhibition (Creative/Art)

A unique exhibition connecting Cork Prison learners, Dillon’s Cross families, and community participants through artwork and storytelling, highlighting resilience, healing, and the power of education to bridge invisible communities.

Exhibition (Art/Craft)

Together in Practice is an exhibition of artworks created by the Glucksman’s Tuesday Art Group. The Tuesday Art Group are a group of women supported by Good Shepherd Cork who attend weekly art classes in the museum.

Workshop/Exhibition (Education/Creative)

Explore how 3D printing enhances teaching at UCC through collaborative work between UCC Library’s Digital Scholarship Studio and academics, featuring talks and hands-on models that show how tools support student learning.

Class/Workshop (Exercise/Wellbeing)

This event will target physical activity for adult and youth populations, making people aware of activity guidelines, while providing practical tips and exercises for daily activity to benefit overall health and physical wellbeing.

Meet our ID+ futures co-researchers who have an intellectual disability and hear about their experiences working as co-researchers. Suitable for anyone interested in education and research for people with an intellectual disability.

An insightful talk with an artist whose work is amongst the UCC art collectiondisability.

Experience Chinese calligraphy

This event in Special Collections showcases Helen Hooker O’Malley’s newly acquired photographic archive. Hear from her son, Cormac O’Malley, and librarian Barbara Diener as they discuss her work and explore historic photography materials, including albums, glass plates, cameras, and artefacts.

Historical tour of UCC campus.

Class/Workshop (STEM)

Learn how to use your phone or tablet’s accessibility features to help make learning, reading and writing easier.

Walk/Outdoor (Environment/Ecology)

This one-time activity will invite you to “map” the UCC campus as an explorer.

Lecture (Literature/History)

Discover political and literary connections between Ireland and Puerto Rico as both islands pursued national independence in the twentieth century.

Exhibition (Culture/Education)

Access UCC invites you to the Traveller Living History Exhibition, celebrating Irish Traveller culture through a live on-campus experience featuring a barrel-top wagon, storytelling, fire scene and tinsmith displays, bread tasting, paper flower making, and culture awareness training.

Join Dr Ciara Staunton for a friendly, learner-centred information session on Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and how it can support access, progression and advanced entry to higher education.

Irish language conversation circle. The level of Irish will be intermediate to advanced.

Mark the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Proclamation with a behind-the-scenes tour exploring its printing, challenges faced by the printers, and UCC Library’s conservation work.

Amid fake news and deepfakes, this workshop helps participants navigate today’s complex digital landscape.

A series of talks celebrating 100 years of food education and research at University College Cork.

Learn how to make dumplings.

Cathal Kerrigan leads an LGBT+ history walking tour of UCC main campus. His tour provides unique insights into the extraordinary changes in the status and experience of LGBT people in UCC from the 1970s to the 2020s.

Recognise and develop existing critical thinking skills, identify factors that contribute to narrow minded thinking, and practice learning how to understand, and engage with individuals and groups with whom we disagree.

The Event opens with an exhibition of artwork by women from the Dillons Cross Project, followed by a workshop inviting participants to write an apology on fabric for a collaborative bunting.

This event will be a celebration of the MicroCreds project as it concludes and the courses become part of the framework of the university. The variety of MicroCreds from Dance to BioPharma will be showcased.

This is a seminar that will illustrate images, rhetoric and very short video clips to discuss how racists and the far-right form and shape the public sphere.

Tadgh Connery, UCC School of Applied Psychology

Workshop (Education)

What influences our decision making? Why do we dream? Why are our memories sometimes faulty? Join Tadgh for a fun and engaging workshop where we will unpack the human mind and answer key questions behind our thoughts, emotions and behaviour.

An interactive networking lunch and roundtable for community and voluntary sector leaders to share experiences, explore skills needs, and identify accessible learning pathways and collaborative lifelong-learning solutions.

Out for Ourselves: The Lives of Irish Lesbians and Gay Men (published in 1986). The book’s multiple contributors reflect on the Irish LGBT experience in a time of homophobia, the AIDS crisis, and LGBT activism. Presentation delivered by Dr Diarmuid Scully.

Showcasing research from the Change Project on adapting healthcare to climate change and supporting vulnerable older people. Explore practical, evidence-based insights from the project’s research and pilot e-learning programme.

Information Session (Food & Nutrition)

An overview of the Food Policy Research Hub’s work on how local, national, and international policies shape what we eat, with an open discussion on how these issues affect Cork’s efforts to create a healthier, more sustainable city.

Witness an Authentic Tea Ceremony.

Ink and Imagination: The Art of Handwriting

Workshop (Art/Creative)

Special Collections staff teach techniques for reading historical handwriting using 16^th – 20^th century letters, diaries, scores, and manuscripts. Participants explore paleography, view archival items, and join guided handwriting exercises.

Talk (Equality/Diversity)

This discussion looks at how early supports build students’ skills, confidence, and CVs for life after college, while also highlighting real and perceived challenges of working with a disability, drawing on insights from both students and employers.

Workshop (Environment/Creative)

This one-off workshop is accessible to the public (15+) at all stages of writing. It will include a set of creative writing activities, space for reflection, and a short nature walk around UCC campus for inspiration.

Workshop (Languages)

Learn some Irish that you can use every day! The Barr na gCnoc team will be on hand to teach you some greetings and phrases as Gaeilge. All are welcome, no matter your level of Irish!

The basics you need to know when you’re travelling to China.

Historical tour of UCC campus.

Talk/Lecture (Environment/Ecology)

Tetrapod tracks have been found on Valentia Island, Co. Kerry. At almost 400 million years old, they are the oldest reliable tracks, in the world, of 4-legged animals emerging onto the land. A whole ecosystem has now been revealed.