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A huge congratulations to Corpus Christi Primary School in Moyross, Co. Limerick who recently won a European award for a feature-length movie they produced on the Siege of Limerick and the subsequent Flight of the Wild Geese. In line with MIC's long-standing community engagement work, a number of MIC academics were delighted to support the school in the production of the movie, namely Dr Loïc Guyon, Nicky Fennell and Dr Paul O'Brien.
With the publication of this year’s CAO points today (30 August), Mary Immaculate College (MIC) is delighted to announce that the College has once again performed exceptionally well and has seen increases in overall applications, First Preferences and Total Mentions, with the latter now standing at the highest on record. Individual applications to MIC continue to rise, with a 1% increase on last year’s application figures. First Preferences increased by 3%, and this year saw a 2% increase in Total Mentions.
The Irish Centre for Transnational Studies (ICTS) at MIC is set to lead a Symposium later this month on the theme of ‘Contested (Hi)Stories in Media and Creative Arts’.
The symposium will take place on 18 March as part of this year’s Limerick Early Music Festival (LEMF25) ‘Stories’, and the venue is Dance Limerick (Chapel, John’s Square) in the city centre.
This event—free and open to the public—will explore the role of media and the creative arts in challenging dominant narratives surrounding global conflict and forced migration. Beginning with a live performance of Migrating Musical Selves, which interweaves Ukrainian music and storytelling, a panel of leading researchers will examine how storytelling in literature, music and film can reshape public discourse and drive academic and political conversations. The event will conclude with the screening of an award-winning documentary. Participants are welcome to drop in during the day.
The symposium is co-organised by MIC academics Dr Sabine Egger (Associate Professor in German Studies & Joint Director of the ICTS) and Dr Ailbhe Kenny (Associate Professor in Music Education) as part of the ongoing three-year ICTS project ‘Trajectories of Belonging’.
Research undertaken by MIC lecturers has been featured in an award-winning book on children’s learning during the COVID pandemic.
Dr Suzanne Egan of the Department of Psychology was the principal investigator of the COVID-19 study Play and Learning in the Early Years (PLEY), which was featured in the book Play in aCovid Frame: Everyday Pandemic Creativity in a Time of Isolation—recently awarded the prestigious 2024 Iona and Peter Opie Prize by the American Folklore Society.
Alongside Suzanne’s work, the study included the contributory research of Dr Jennifer Pope of the Department of Reflective Pedagogy & Early Childhood Studies and recent PhD graduates from the Department of Psychology, Dr Clara Hoyne and Dr Chloe Beatty.
