Professor Patrick O’Donovan retired as Chair of French on January 31 2024 and has taken on his new role as Professor Emeritus.

His contribution to the Department, School and College has been considerable. In each case he left a legacy in terms of new structures and a culture of civility and collegiality. For us, within French, it is a significant moment, the end of an era in many respects and so we marked the event with a reception, a vin d’honneur,  to acknowledge Paddy's contribution and wish him the very best.

The Department of French and the Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past Research Cluster of CASiLAC are delighted to welcome you to their final seminar of this academic year on Monday June 12, 12:00-13:00 in ORB 1.24.

We look forward to seeing you there.

The Department of French was delighted to welcome H.E. Vincent Guérend, French Ambassador to Ireland, who was visiting UCC with a delegation from the Embassy.

Prompted by his work as a doctor, and by his own experience of illness, Patrick Autréaux set out in search of what is ‘true’. Literature was his chosen route. Through writing, he attempts to find a form for the ‘flesh of the world’. And to find an answer to the question of care. If he writes, it’s in order to treat that for which there is no cure.   

CASILaC's 'Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past' presents:

Analysing the Anniversary

Memory-Making in National Moments of Commemoration

'Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria', Dr Muriam Haleh Davis in Conversation with Dr Dónal Hassett, Online Seminar, Wednesday 15th March, 16:00-17:00

Reconsidering directorial authorship in the classic French cinema’s Tradition of Quality

By Barry Nevin, Technological University Dublin

4-5pm on Thursday 23 February in ORB 1.24

Louisa Esther Mugabo (UCC) will speak with Joshua Craze, a researcher and reporter on South Sudan.