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Person standing outdoors in UCC's Quad, facing the camera, wearing a striped short-sleeve shirt and headband, with blurred trees and buildings in the background on a lightly rainy day.
Professor John O’Halloran, President of University College Cork; Amy O'Connor, Cork senior camogie team player and UCC alumnus; Ben Cunningham, Cork senior hurling team player and UCC student and Jarlath Burns, Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael at the announcement of a new partnership between UCC and the GAA to publish Atlas of the GAA in the award-winning Atlas Series from Cork University Press. Photo: Marcin Lewandowski
Dr Claire Scannell, Principal Meteorological Officer at Met Éireann: Dr Catriona Duffy, Climate Services Division, Met Éireann; Dr Rosa Rogers, Research Fellow and author of Chasing the Curlew’s Call; and Rosa Kelly, Visual Artist. Image: Clare Keogh.
UCC staff and students wearing rainbow-colored accessories and holding Pride flags gather outdoors beside an ice cream truck on a sunny day. Several people smile and wave at the camera while standing near a pedestrian crossing in front of stone and modern buildings, with trees and blue sky in the background.
Uachtarán na hÉireann Catherine Connolly met with students from St. Patrick's Girls' National School. The students visited campus as part of Access UCC’s Professor Fluffy outreach programme for DEIS primary schools, designed to inspire young students and encourage future participation in higher education. Image: Provision.
Pictured left to right: Eileen Murphy, Principal Officer: Census Administration, CSO; Richard McMahon, Assistant Director General, Demography and Housing Directorate, CSO; Professor Ciara Breathnach, UCC School of History, and Dr Helene O’Keefe, UCC College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences.
Census 1926: Capturing a social and cultural moment. UCC symposium on 25 May. A group of people dance together on a wet outdoor surface in a rural setting, beside one seated musician playing an accordion
Prof. Hannah Daly on a beach, with a rock wall in the background.
Irish rugby player Edwin Edogbo, in his Ireland kit, is standing on the sideline of the Aviva stadium with three women.
A group of people analysing findings displayed on an array of screens
Women examining a living seawall in Cobh
How Ireland Voted 2024 The New Normal? Book © 2025
Pictured (left to right): UCC School of Applied Psychology researchers Dr Conor Linehan; John Twomey, lead researcher of Deepfakes/Real Harms; and Dr Gillian Murphy.
Photo: Crowds at Brabant's wireless shop on the Grand Parade in Cork gathered to hear Pope Pius XI speak on February 7, 1931. It was the first time a pope had broadcast on radio. Irish Examiner Archive
New documentary on Daniel O’Connell to air on RTÉ
Ann Keogh, wife of the late Professor Dermot Keogh, and An Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Inaugural Dermot Keogh Memorial Lecture and launch of The Irish Revolution: Diplomacy and reactions 1919–1923. Image: Darragh Kane
Pictured: Dr Eugene Costello, UCC School of History and Radical Humanities Laboratory, stands in front of The Bull and Drover, a sculpture by Kevin Holland, Madden's Buildings in Blackpool, Cork. Image: Provision⁣
Pictured: First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska (right) is pictured with Minister for Further & Higher Education, James Lawless, TD (left); Professor James Kapaló; and Professor Ursula Kilkelly, UCC Vice-President of Global Engagement.
A group of four people stand indoors in front of a presentation screen. They’re posed side by side, smiling toward the camera.
The Knitting Map, one of the pieces on display in the exhibition at 1 Horgan's Quay, Cork. Picture: Marcin Lewandowski
UCC's Quad at night, lit up in green.
Dr Conal Creedon wearing academic robes in red, white, and green stands in front of a wooden arched doorway covered with ivy. The wall around him is made of old stone, and autumn leaves in shades of yellow and orange frame the doorway.
Dr John Creedon, wearing an academic gown and cap, stands smiling in front of a wooden door marked 'President’s Office' at University College Cork.
Researchers will examine diagnostic delays, complex overlapping symptoms, and patient–doctor interactions. Pictured are Dr Sarah Foley and Jenny Cooney-Quane, UCC School of Applied Psychology.
Members of UCC's Student Recruitment team at the National Ploughing Championships
Dr Gillian Murphy awarded €1.5m European Research Council Starting Grant to explore false memories. Image: UCC.
Jamie, Damian and Jared Harris view the exhibition on opening night.
Jared Harris is pictured with Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Former Head of Collections at UCC Library.
The blue UNHCR flag. It has the acronym with "The UN Refugee Agency" written underneath and above both is the UNHCR logo, which is a silhouette of a person sheltered by two hands arching at the fingertips
A group of people posing in front of a mural depicting the underwater ocean
A man posing in a mural depicting the underwater ocean
'Dickie to Richard’ – Richard Harris: Role of a Lifetime
Lead image: Ellen Dillon, UCC/Arts Council Writer in Residence 2025, recites poetry written during her residency at UCC. Image: Marcin Lewandowski
Alt text: Pictured at University College Cork are (left to right): Gerry Davis, Vanessa Jones, Vera Klute and Julianne Guinee. The artists have been selected for Accenture’s Women on Walls at University College Cork (UCC), which will recognise the achievements of outstanding women in a series of commissioned portraits.
UCC President John O'Halloran with David Donoghue, former Irish Ambassador to UN and key negotiator for 2030 Agenda, and Dr Rosa Rogers, UCC School of English and Digital Humanities. Image: Marcin Lewandowski.
A group of people in the Honan Plaza in UCC wearing odd socks for World Down Syndrome Day, some holding banners that say #ImproveOurSpportSystems
UCC student Joseph Sheehan to represent Ireland at the Special Olympics World Winter Games⁣ ⁣
Pictured (left to right) are: Professor John O'Halloran, President of UCC; New Irish Artist in Residence UCC/COH, Tatiana dos Santos; Eibhlin Gleeson, CEO Cork Opera House and Yvon Bonenfant, Head of Department of Theatre, UCC. Image credit: Provision
A room full of people watching a panel discussion, with screens in the background that read "Sustainable Futures Forum"
UCC's Student Centre in the background, a tree and a signpost in the foreground.
Tom Hall, Ellen Dillon and Eithne Ní Chatháin (Inni-K) pictured at special event to announce 2025 Artists in Residence. Image: Mark Stedman
Dr Aaron Lim from UCC Department of Geography, Early Career Researcher of the Year.
President Higgins with representatives of Cork University and the editors of 'Atlas of the Irish Civil War: New Perspectives'
Two students in high visibility jackets.
Lord David Puttnam, Jeremy Irons, Adi Roche, and Dominic Casey who were awarded with honorary degrees by University College Cork on Wednesday evening. Picture Daragh McSweeney/Provision
Dr Tom Birkett, Senior Lecturer in Old English and Old Norse at UCC School of English and Digital Humanities, has been awarded a €2m European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to lead research on legacy of the Vikings in Europe. Photo credit: Portia Ameyalli Cruz – UCC.
Pictured at University College Cork (UCC) are (l-r): Joanne O’Riordan, sports journalist, disability activist, motivational speaker and student of law; Caitríona Twomey, volunteer co-ordinator of Cork Penny Dinners; Dola Twomey, therapist/activist at the Sexual Violence Centre Cork; Mary Crilly, feminist activist and founding member and CEO of the Sexual Violence Centre Cork; Dr. Myra Cullinane, medical doctor, barrister and Senior Dublin District coroner; Sr. Sharon Fagan, Congregational Leader, Presentation Sisters (representing Honora ‘Nano’ Nagle); Dr. Naomi Masheti, psychologist, three-time UCC graduate and Programme Director of the Cork Migrant Centre. Photo credit: Clare Keogh
Election Watch podcast - Irish Examiner in collaboration with UCC