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The EMPOWER programme for post-primary students, designed and developed by Mary Immaculate College (MIC) and The Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), will take place across two weeks, one in Limerick and one in Tipperary, this year between 7 June and 17 June.

The LINC Programme celebrated a significant milestone on Thursday, 24 April with the launch of the Interim Evaluation of the Leadership for Inclusion in the Early Years Continuing Professional Development (LINC+ CPD) Programme 2021–2023.

Learn how the library at MIC has a wide collection of dictionaries and encyclopedias. Many of them are held in the Reference Area on the ground floor but some are shelved in the main library beside the relevant subject. Please note when using the library catalogue to search the different spellings of encyclopedia, encyclopaedia, encyclopedias, dictionaries will give different results.

EndNote is a bibliographic management tool. It allows you to create your own database of references which you can then search, edit and format automatically in different output styles for bibliographies. Endnote can also be used to connect directly to Library Catalogues including the MIC catalogue. MIC has a site licence for EndNote and all staff and students are permitted to install a copy of the software on college-owned machines. Downloading EndNote X9 can only be done on campus.

Welcome to the Department of English Language and Literature here at Mary Immaculate College. In deciding to study this subject, you are joining a community of teachers, academics, scholars and researchers who are publishing to an international standard in their chosen areas of the discipline.

Visit this page to learn how English can be taken as part of the MIC Arts Degree as a joint honours combination. English at MIC covers a wide range of topics including modern drama, 20th century literature, literary interpretation, neoclassical literature, Irish poetry & prose, romantic literature, Elizabethan-Jacobean theatre & literary modernism.

If applicants come from a non-English speaking country, they are required to meet the minimum English language requirements to study at MIC. Learn more.

E&CE focus on developing long-term, meaningful and mutually beneficial partnerships with industry and representative groups. We represent the College and work on many projects with a variety of different fora and groups across the region, including the Mid-West Regional Skills Forum, Innovate Limerick, The Learning Hub, Learning Limerick and Explore Engineering.

The office of Enterprise and Community Engagement (E&CE) enables and connects the MIC community of staff and students with wider society through innovative partnerships that make a difference. These partnerships increase the range of campus facilities available for social, cultural and municipal engagement by our community. Inspire and empower future generations through our educational outreach work that is designed and delivered in collaboration with a variety of stakeholders. Working with and supporting communities on collaborative initiatives that make a significant educational, social and cultural impact in Limerick City, as well as regionally, nationally and internationally.

Mary Immaculate College has a tradition of making connections with nearby communities. Discover how MIC achieves this through a variety of outreach initiatives and events—organised and led by staff, students and our Director of Enterprise and Community Engagement, Dr Maeve Liston.

The newly established Business and Accounting Department at Mary Immaculate College (MIC) was formally launched by Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, Peter Burke TD on 25 March at MIC Thurles. Minister Burke, in his address to over 100 attendees at the event, commented that with 5,000 students and close to 2,000 graduates per year, MIC was making a significant contribution to the region in terms of higher education, industry and research partnerships—all creating a boost to the economy and local communities.

Each year, Mary Immaculate College awards up to 50 Undergraduate Entrance Scholarships, valued at €2,000 each, on the basis of results obtained in the Irish Leaving Certificate Examination. The scholarships are tenable only in MIC for the First Year of a full-time primary degree programme to be undertaken at MIC, in the academic year following the Leaving Certificate Examination on which the award is based.

The MA/M Sc in Environment, Society and Culture focuses on the interplay between natural environment and human society, and covers a range of advanced topics across human and physical geography, drawing heavily on MIC staff research expertise. This programme is highly flexible, for instance allowing students to choose, principally via their dissertation research, whether to pursue an Arts or Science Master’s qualification.