Join us for a dialogue between the first Film Artist, Carmel Winters, and the latest, Emer Reynolds. All welcome to attend. Please reserve a place at the following Eventbrite page HERE.

In addition to the conferences sustained focus on hauntology and the ghost as symbol for radical social justice, this year’s conference welcomed papers on “The Future of Folklore” and asked delegates to consider how folklore can usefully combat and destabilise systemic injustice.

UCC Choir 

Directed by Dr. Eva McMullan-Glossop, the University College Cork Choir comprises students from the UCC School of Music and Theatre as well as staff members from across the University.

The Women, We Will Rise by Karan Casey 

What would possess a singer to write a play?

The Women, We Will Rise is a theatrical song cycle that highlights the role of defiant Irish women during the revolutionary period and beyond. It places women centre stage and shares through song and story gallant women from Ireland's past, whilst singing into being a vision for the women of the future. 

The production brings to fruition songs and stories about my great grandmother Agnes Ryan of the hotel, a mother of 12 children and a Cumann na mBan member. Other figures from the era, such as the great patriot Kathleen Clarke from Limerick and Countess Markievicz stand alongside and in comradery with women in contemporary Ireland. Keeping an eye on things, as always, is the legendary figure from Irish folklore an Chailleach. 

This presentation will examine the creative process behind writing and producing the play entitled The Women, We Will Rise and will be a mixture of song performance and talking.

The Knitting Map, a collaborative textile based project created as part of Cork Capital of Culture 2005 is currently installed in Art Museum of West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Acts of sonic fracture: working with Sonic Ghosting as an experimental music practice

Rearranged: pop and soul music for voice and piano

Clíodhna Octigan - voice
Paul O'Donnell - piano

This week's Friday lunchtime concert promises to be a real treat and features the wonderful duo of vocalist Clíodhna Octigan and none other than UCC's (and FUAIM's!) very own Paul O'Donnell on piano. Please join us in St. Fin Barre's Cathedral for this much-anticipated performance of brilliantly (re)arranged pop and soul tunes.

• UCC English and Theatre students guest curate special edition of The Irish Times Magazine.
• Tess O’Regan and Dorothée Karekezi among four guest curators.
• Special edition explores key issues affecting students including addictions on campus, artificial intelligence, mental health, identity and generational stereotyping.