The second seminar in the Series will take place on Thursday,  22 February at 5.00 pm in West Wing 9.  This seminar, titled ‘Toasting the Oatcake: an exploration of the material and culinary culture of the oatcake in Irish vernacular tradition’, will be delivered by food historian and food writer, Regina Sexton.

Our next SAMS talk will take place on Wednesday 28 February at 5:15pm in West Wing 5 when Natasha Dukelow, School of History, UCC will address us on the subject of The compiler of the Liber exemplorum and the Franciscan intellectual networks in thirteenth-century Ireland.

This Thursday, 15 February, the first seminar, entitled Chasing Down placenames in Acallam na Senórach: locating Co. Down sites in the stories of Finn mac Cumaill will be delivered by medieval historian Anne Connon, Adjunct Senior Lecturer to the Department of Early and Medieval Irish, UCC. The seminar take place at 5.00 pm in West Wing 9.

The School of Irish Learning extends its congratulations to Dr Aoife Granville, Department of Folklore and Ethnology, on her recent appointment to the Board of the Arts Council of Ireland by Minister Catherine Martin. 

Cultural Dynamics in medieval Ulster and beyond: a shared inheritance

Tréaslaíonn Scoil Léann na Gaeilge an catalóg nua ar na lámhscríbhinní Gaeilge i leabharlann Harvard leis an Dr Neil Buttimer, Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge.

The School of Irish Learning is delighted to announce our Spring Seminar Series for 2021.
The series will begin this Thursday, 25 February, at 4pm. All lectures will be in English and will take place by means of our online platform MS Teams.

We are thrilled to announce that the Cork Folklore Project has been announced a finalist in the National Lottery Good Causes Awards. We have been selected from across the country as a finalist in the Heritage Section and will go forward this week, for adjudication in the National Final.  

'An Irishman's Diary' in the Irish Times (29/12/2020) reports on the passing of a walking stick cut by Charles Stewart Parnell, which is now used as a literary baton, from the poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill to poet and UCC lecturer in Modern Irish, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh.

The School of Irish Learning Irish wishes to pass on its congratulations to Ms Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin — a second-year student of Music and Gaeilge — who won second prize in the Oireachtas U21 poetry competition (Comórtas B8: Dán Roinn B [faoi 21]) for her poem 'Sa Choill'. We salute Gormfhlaith's achievement and wish her continued success with her studies and with her poetry. 

The School of Irish Learning Irish congratulates all involved in the donation of the Book of Lismore to University College Cork, particularly our colleagues in the Library and Prof. Pádraig Ó Macháin of Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge. The School wishes to pay special tribute to the generosity of the Duke of Devonshire, his family and the Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement in presenting this notable volume to UCC.

The School of Irish Learning sends its congratulations to Ms Brigita Gallagher (BA International, Irish and French, currently studying for a Professional Masters in Education) and to Ms Róisín Ní Chinnéide (a final year (BCL) Law and Irish student) on receiving Fulbright awards.

The winner of the 2020 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry is Dr Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh of the School of Irish Learning (Department of Modern Irish), UCC.

New seminar series launched.

On the 24 January in the Seomra Caidrimh, O’Rahilly Building, UCC, Dr James Kapalo of the Study of Religions Department launched  new publication, Charms, Charmers and Charming in Ireland: From the Medieval to the Modern. This is the first book to examine the full range of the evidence for Irish charms. As Ireland has one of the oldest literatures in Europe, and also one of the most comprehensively recorded folklore traditions, it affords a uniquely rich body of evidence for such an investigation.

The award was conferred upon Dr Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh of the School of Irish Learning (Department of Modern Irish) for her collection Tost agus Allagar. 

Two researchers from the School of Irish Learning won awards in 2019.