tom@TheCork.ie
UCC celebrates 175th anniversary – just a couple of days before its historic position of Cork’s only University comes to an end – on 1st January 2021 Cork Institute of Technology will formally be upgraded to the Munster Technological University
University College Cork celebrates its 175th anniversary today, December 30; on that date in 1845 the university formally came into being as Queen’s College Cork (QCC).
QCC was founded as one of three Queen’s Colleges located in
Belfast,
Cork, and
Galway, under an Act “to enable her Majesty” – Queen Victoria – “to endow Colleges for the Advancement of Learning in Ireland”.