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News Roundup March 12, 2022

By Róisín Chapman
IA Newsletter March 12, 2022

March 11, 2022 by Leave a Comment

Landmarks Won't Go Green This Year As towns and cities across Ireland and the world prepare to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day, Tourism Ireland announced that it would not carry out its annual Global Greening initiative out of respect for the situation in Ukraine. The initiative began in 2010 with the lighting of Sydney Opera House to mark the 200th anniversary of the reception of … [Read more...] about News Roundup March 12, 2022

UCC at NYU

By Irish America Staff
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by Leave a Comment

L-R: Rob Donelson, Executive Director of Development and Alumni Relations UCC; Prof. Patrick O'Shea, President of UCC; Prof. Kevin Kenny, Director of Glucksman Ireland House NYU; and Ciarán Madden, Ireland's Consul General to New York.

Alumni of University College Cork got together at NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House, for a reception hosted by the president of ​UCC, Professor Patrick O’Shea. Graduates were updated on the exciting developments taking place at their alma mater and mingled with former classmates and faculty. ♦ … [Read more...] about UCC at NYU

University Research

By Irish America Staff
November / December 2018

November 1, 2018 by Leave a Comment

Members of the UCC's University Sanctuary Working Group with UCC President, Professor Patrick O'Shea (second from left), and Professor Caroline Fennell, Senior VP at UCC.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN A Radical Approach in Diabetes Research An international collaboration jointly led by University College Dublin (UCD) and Monash University in Melbourne has found that mimicking the activity of molecules found naturally in the body may provide a new approach to treating vascular disease in patents with diabetes. Currently 425 million people have … [Read more...] about University Research

The Great Famine Online

By Maggie Holland, Editorial Assistant
September / October 2018

September 1, 2018 by 2 Comments

University College Cork, and the Irish Department of Culture, Heritage, and the Gaeltacht, collaborated to create the Great Irish Famine Online. The project displays detailed information on the famine’s effects and enables users to visually analyze pre-and post-famine statistics for their locality, charting changes in the human and social landscape across Ireland. The database … [Read more...] about The Great Famine Online

Cork Newspapers were “Actors and Reporters” Following the Rising

By R. Bryan Willits, Editorial Assistant
February / March 2016

February 11, 2016 by Leave a Comment

An article written by Alan McCarthy, a first-year Ph.D. student in the School of History at University College Cork (UCC), reveals the unique importance of County Cork newspapers following the 1916 Easter Rising and the difficulties they faced under the strict and sometimes violent censorship campaigns of both British forces and the IRA. The article has been published in the … [Read more...] about Cork Newspapers were “Actors and Reporters” Following the Rising

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Archbishop Paul Cullen of Dublin becomes the first Irish cardinal on this day in 1866. Born in Co. Kildare, Cullen went on to study at the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. Cullen was appointed rector of Irish College and helped secure the college’s future. While rector from 1832-1850, he forged a close friendship with Pope Gregory XVI and Pope Pius IX and helped safeguard the interests of the Irish church. He was first made Archbishop of Armagh and then transferred to Archbishop of Dublin in 1852, where he would be later made a cardinal.

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