Top 100 universities for Performing Arts
UCC is ranked in the top 100 universities for Performing Arts in the QS World University Rankings 2025.
Find Out More
Welcome to the School of Film, Music & Theatre
The School of Film, Music and Theatre is a place of ground-breaking creative learning and experimentation that promotes parity of esteem for theoretical and practical teaching, research and practice. Our School nurtures the ambitions of all who walk through its doors, and produces the most innovative, pioneering research and analysis of creative practice across disciplines in Ireland.
News and Events
06
Feb
06/02/26 - FUAIM Concert - Aoife Ní Bhriain & Cormac McCarthy
Presenting work from their new album, Cosán Casta, this year's Traditional Artist in Residence, the extraordinary Aoife NÍ Bhriain, and close collaborator, Cormac McCarthy, take to the Aula Maxima stage for this week's Friday lunchtime concert in association with UCC's TradFest 2026.
Read more
Dr. Anna Viola Sborgi – Mon 9th Feb @1pm – Women, Resilience, and the Labour of Homemaking in 'Rosie' and 'Herself'
Part of a broader project on the representation of women’s experience of the global housing crisis, this talk focuses on two Irish narrative films, Rosie (Paddy Breathnach, 2018) and Herself (Phyllida Lloyd, 2020), portraying the often “invisible” configuration of female houselessness, and the ways in which the process of homemaking is crucially sustained by the two main characters’ resilience and labour.
Read more
29 Jan 2026
UCC Music Student Ríona Hely wins Bonn Óir Seán Ó Riada Competition 2026
Concertina player Ríona Hely has won the 2026 Bonn Óir Seán Ó Riada Competition, one of the most prestigious honours in Irish traditional music.
Read more
Brendan Canty to deliver public film talks at UCC - 3, 10, 17 Feb @ 1pm
Talk series to explore Canty’s work from music videos to short and feature films Events announced as Christy receives 14 IFTA nominations after major international success. Lunchtime talk series hosted by UCC Department of Film and Screen Media
Read more
Highlighted Courses
School of Film, Music and Theatre
An Scoil Scannánaíochta, Ceoil agus Amharclannaíochta
Contact us
Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh, College Road, Cork, T12 K8AF