Dr Amanullah de Sondy is a senior lecturer of Contemporary Islam at UCC, and has an extensive career as a writer, speaker and activist in public understanding of Islam. His first book, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, was published by Bloomsbury Press in 2014. Originally hailing from Glasgow, Dr de Sondy arrived at UCC in…
Before students can enjoy the Christmas festivities, we must endure the dreaded study week and exam period, which serve as bleak reminders of the real reasons we are in university. Gone are the carefree days of procrastinating and simply not thinking about exams. We are now suddenly reminded of every lecture we skipped, all those…
Last winter, this Features writer was dawning red and green, feeding plastic reindeer and coated in glitter. My experience as an elf started as my experience playing a witch ended. I thought spending most of my teenage Thursday nights at a drama school would have prepared me, made me fit for the role of Ginger…
Writer: Molly O’Rourke Over the last few weeks, the UCC Autumn Conferrings have been taking place on campus. It is difficult to ignore the buzz of excitement from the graduating students as they celebrate the day with family and friends. We see them bravely taking a step onto the quad to mark the momentous…
Writer: Christine Lee I am a firm believer that if you have all the facts, and know what to expect, you can pretty much do anything. I mean, if you had all the facts for an exam and a copy of all the questions that would be asked, you’d definitely pass, provided you put in…
‘Fears were openly expressed that a serial killer was operating, either alone or with other like-minded predators, in an area of the country where instances of female disappearance had become so common that it had been dubbed the ‘Vanishing Triangle’.’ Alan Bailey, ‘Missing, Presumed’. The third member of the Vanishing Triangle is most of the…
Writes Ciaran Dineen, Editor-In-Chief While many students here in UCC and across the country must work part-time, if not full-time jobs to pay for college fees, accommodation and day to day living, not many are expected to pick up their phone and answer a call at any time in the day. It’s also unlikely that…
Ah, final year. It represents many things; the end of an era, the start of our next adventure, a time to knuckle down and actually start studying. Above all though, it marks a time of stress and uncertainty for the future. Gone are our carefree days of skipping lectures, attending every social event possible and banging out essays…
This is a controversial question but one that needs to be asked. The tech industry despite being one of the most innovative industries in the world is stuck in the 1900s. Only 7% of tech positions in Europe are filled by women there has been efforts to change this statistic. The diversity movement surrounding the Technology field is…
There are one hundred and one things that I was completely oblivious about before I went on Erasmus. For sure, figuring most of it out along the way was all part of the adventure. Some things, however, would have been great to know about or perhaps read about in a handy article in the UCC Express before I…