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MIC is delighted to announce a number of free events organised as part of this year’s Culture Night celebrations. On Friday 20 September, both the Limerick and Thurles campus will open their doors for a celebration of Irish language, culture, heritage, art, poetry, music and history.
Now in its nineteenth year, Culture Night is a national moment, celebrating culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day.
A Crash Course in Half Man Half Biscuit
Guided Tour of MIC Chapel and Redemptorist Church
Claiming the National Anthems of Ireland: God Save the King and Amhrán na bhFiann
Limerick City’s Coat of Arms: A Visual Review
Historic Tours of MIC Thurles
Washing Windows IV: Irish Women Write Poetry
Musical Performance by Ceola & Friends
The National Citizens’ Parliament on Media and Democracy held its fourth and final day long meeting on Saturday 10 May in Mary Immaculate College in the heart of Limerick.
Irish National Citizens Parliament members present the Irish resolutions to MEPs and members of the European Commission in Brussels
Irish people are in danger of underestimating their own ability to speak their native language, according to research carried about by a Mary Immaculate College (MIC) researcher.
Indeed, the same study suggests that lack of confidence in the cúpla focal could be linked to an absence of quality feedback in school.
Shane Barry, an Applied Linguistics doctoral student at MIC has drawn the conclusion based on his interviews with current civil servants who were asked to rate their own Irish language proficiency. In his study, he asked participants to evaluate their own ability to speak Irish in a current conversational setting. The research found that 60% of respondents would generally downplay their own abilities but would answer more favourably to specific questions, such as their ability to order a cup of coffee in a Gaeltacht area.
The Irish-Austrian Conference will take place at MIC Limerick on 17-19 June 2026. The theme is Irish-Austrian Cultural Ties from Modernism to the Present: Between Parallel Developments and Complex Entanglements.
The ninth International Research Methods Summer School will take place this month, making a welcome return after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 on academia will be the focus, with a theme of Evolutions in Research in Unprecedented Times.
The ninth International Research Methods Summer School took place this week, making a welcome return after a two-year absence due to the pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 on academia was the focus, with a theme of Evolutions in Research in Unprecedented Times.
To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the ‘Issues in Applied Linguistics’ series, which is run as part of the Graduate Diploma/MA and Structured PhD in Applied Linguistics, we’ve invited speakers from our very first ‘Issues in Applied Linguistics’ series in 2015 to present again ten years on. Where relevant, the speakers will focus on developments in the field during the ten years.
The ‘Issues in Applied Linguistics’ series is run as part of the Graduate Diploma/MA and Structured PhD in Applied Linguistics.
Mary Immaculate College January Open Day 2026 Programme Talks Schedule.
