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2025
German Ambassador Visits UCC
UCC was delighted to welcome the German Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Mr David Gill, to campus on Thursday, 20 February.
Ambassador Gill was welcomed to UCC by Professor John O’Halloran in the President’s Office where he signed the Visitor’s Book and was presented with a gift in the company of Vice-President Global Engagement, Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Head of the School of Languages, Dr Silvia Ross, Head of German, Dr Rachel MagShamhráin, and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service/Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) lecturers Inga Owesen and Daria Richter.
Ambassador Gill then visited UCC’s German Department where he met staff and students of the Department and officially opened a student exhibition on Heinrich von Kleist. He spoke to students about their studies and career plans, and emphasised the critical importance of their future role as European citizens and intercultural ambassadors.
Dr MagShamhráin in her address to the Ambassador at the Department spoke about an uninterrupted tradition of German teaching, research and education at UCC since 1909, and the Department’s role as a bridge between Germany and Ireland in the Southwest of Ireland.
UCC has 53 staff members from Germany and has mobility partnerships with 38 German higher-education institutions. Germany is Ireland’s third largest trading partner globally and its largest EU trading partner. Trade between the two countries has more than doubled over the last decade and is currently worth over €60bn. Approximately 38,000 people are employed by Irish companies in Germany. Germany is Ireland’s third largest tourism market with an estimated 446,400 German visitors to Ireland last year alone. Cork has been twinned with the city of Cologne since 1988.