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Can we do it all over again? 🎾💚

Some snaps from a brilliant Finals Night at our Range Rover Senior Closed Championships with more to follow over the coming days 📸🏆

Players, supporters, friends and family were out in force, making for such a great atmosphere around the club from start to finish 🙌🏻

A huge thank you to everyone who played, supported, helped out and contributed to making the week such a success. It takes a lot of people behind the scenes to make a week like this happen and we really appreciate every one of you. ⭐️✨

And of course, a huge thank you to Range Rover for their generous sponsorship and support of this year’s championships.

Already looking forward to next year! 🎾🏆

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Thank you to everyone who came to our Culture Night event last week with @nicholasfoxweber of the @albers_foundation and artist @brianfay1!

It was a special moment for us to be able to sit down with Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of the Anni and Josef Albers Foundation, to speak about Anni and Josef Albers legacy. Nicholas shared amazing stories behind the Albers’ lives and works which highlighted the contributions to art they made. We are honoured to have works like Fay’s, AA Open Letter PNG, 2022, which remembers Anni Albers’ legacy.

Brian Fay's work, AA Open Letter PNG, 2022, which is currently on display as a part of our current exhibition Selected Works from the UCC Art Collection, combines the depiction of an abstract weaving with with a portrait of the renowned artist Anni Albers, widely considered to be the foremost textile designer of the 20th century.

Nicholas Fox Weber is Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, perpetuating the vision of Anni and Josef Albers through exhibitions, publications, education, and outreach concomitant with the Alberses’ personal values.

@culturenightcorkcity | @universitycollegecork | @artscouncilireland

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Culture Night at The Glucksman Gallery!

Join us at this years Culture Night, Friday the 18th, for a day and evening of creativity that includes a round table discussion on the legacy of Anni Albers, a collaborative family art workshop, and a night of music organised in partnership with UCC Student Union!

What's on:

1-2pm: Anni Albers in Focus

A roundtable discussion with Nicholas Fox Weber, Director of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman, and artist Brian Fay.

4-6pm: Europe Through Art: A collaborative family workshop

Explore stories of art, culture, history, and contemporary life while adding your own creative perspective to this evolving artwork in this family workshop inspired by the exhibition Panorama Europa.

7-8:30pm: Coirm Cheoil Chorcaí

An evening of traditional Irish music in our gallery spaces. Performers on the night will include Conchubhar and Seán Ó Luasa, the Gamelan ensemble from the UCC Department of Music, and artists from a variety of other cultural backgrounds.

Find out more through the link in our bio!

Friday Late programming is generously supported by the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

@deptculturecommssport | @patrickodonovan_td | @universitycollegecork | @culturenightcorkcity

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Thank you to everyone who came to our talk with novelist Sara Baume and artist Molly Douthit. Glucksman Director Fiona Kearney sat down with the two for an in conversation discussing Baume’s new book, Opening Night.

The talk was part of The Glucksman’s Friday Lates programme, running throughout September. Find out more about our upcoming Friday Lates programming through the link in our bio!

Friday Lates are supported by the Night-Time Economy After Hours at the Museum scheme from the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport.

Photo by Clare Keogh.

@deptculturecommssport | @patrickodonovan_td | @universitycollegecork

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In the current edition of the Irish Arts Review, Summer 2026

ART COLLECTIONS | Curator’s choice

Fiona Kearney selects a Claire Halpin painting from the University College Cork Art Collection

'As the title suggests, Panorama Europa presents a wide-ranging view of Europe that encompasses geographic, historic and cultural relationships. The painting shifts from images that evoke the religious traditions and conflicted histories of the island of Ireland on the far left through to the civic-realm architecture of Eastern Europe and China’s Belt and Road initiative on the right, moving through depictions of war, public protest and totalitarian gatherings.', writes Fiona Kearney. Claire Halpin Panorama Europa 2024 (diptych) oil on canvas 60 x 160cm

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Huge Congrats to our XD3 Team who won 4-0 yesterday V St Anne’s with hard fought three set battles in the mix 🔥🙌🏻🥳

And Hard Luck to our Ladies XD5 who lost to a strong team from Rushbrooke but went down fighting 🙌🏻💪🏻

#proudofourclub

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The Glucksman are delighted to be part of the Cork City-led Cultureways project, which has just been awarded funding through the @creativeireland Climate Action Fund III (2026–2029).

Cultureways is an ambitious three-year project designed to enable behaviour change in Cork City by encouraging people to rethink and reduce the number of short car journeys. Led by @corkcitycouncil, the Cultureways project is being delivered in partnership with The Glucksman, @corkmidsummer, Sapience, and the Sustainability Institute at @universitycollegecork. The fund is supported by @deptculturecommssport, @deptcee, the Department of the Taoiseach, and @eirgrid_

Combining socially engaged arts practice with behavioural science, the Cultureways project will explore how creativity can influence everyday travel habits and support climate action. The project will work with three suburban communities that share a common challenge: a high concentration of short everyday journeys under 2km. A dedicated Cultureway will be developed within each community, providing a space for a series of artistic commissions that are backed by evidence-based behavioural science approaches to support lasting change. Artists will work with local people in familiar neighbourhood settings, including community halls, sports clubs and shopping centres, using creative practice to explore everyday travel choices and the routes that connect destinations within communities and to the wider city.

Fiona Kearney, Director of the Glucksman Gallery, said: “We are thrilled to be part of the Cultureways project which will pioneer creative and sustainable modes of travel across our city.

“UCC and the Glucksman have an outstanding track record of addressing climate action through community and artistic engagement, and we can’t wait to collaborate with Cork City Council and Cork Midsummer to mobilise people through culture and infuse active travel with the joy of artistic discovery.”

@universitycollegecork | @creativeireland

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Charlie Mackesy will now be joining us remotely for this event on a live video feed, as he unfortunately cannot travel to us in West Cork due to health reasons. We are delighted that Charlie will be doing live drawing on video for us during the event – he has led this type of event in the past and it works wonderfully well.

You are all invited to join in and draw along with him. Please feel free to bring your own favourite notebook and pens with you (we can provide some paper and pens if you need extra).

Charlie will be in conversation with Fiona Kearney from the Glucksman Gallery, who will be with us in the room, making this a unique and interactive event. We can't wait to share this special evening with you.

🌞📚

#WCLF26

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Thank you to all who joined us yesterday in Elizabeth Fort for the opening performance of an casadh (the turn) by Laura Ní Fhlaibhín!

an casadh is a bio-sculptural installation and live performance by @lauranifhlaibhin exploring ideas of kinship, ritual and nourishment commissioned by The Glucksman in partnership with @corkmidsummer.

Thank you to the Director of Cork Midsummer Festival Lorraine Maye for providing opening remarks alongside our Director Professor Fiona Kearney and our Curator of Exhibitions and Projects Katie O'Grady. We would also like to thank the staff at Elizabeth Fort for hosting us for the duration of the festival.

an casadh is curated by @katie.o.grady_ and is funded by a project award from the the Arts Council of Ireland and created for @corkmidsummer.

an casadh is open to the public at @elizabethfort_, Barrack Street from 13th to 20th June, open daily 10am–5pm (12pm-5pm on Sunday).

Find out more about an casadh through the link in our bio🔗

@universitycollegecork | @artscouncilireland | @corkmidsummer

Images by Clare Keogh

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We would like to extend our thanks to all who attended the launch of our new exhibition Panorama Europa last week!

Panorama Europa presents the work of ten Irish artists who engage with traditions of European painting to explore contemporary identities and wider societal issues. The selected paintings, tapestry, sculptures and drawings reference works from Pre-Renaissance to Impressionism. The exhibition invites you to reflect on these art histories and consider how artists draw on diverse pictorial tropes to create new modes of representation.

Panorama Europa runs until November 01. The Glucksman is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 5pm- we look forward to welcoming you to the gallery✨

Images by Clare Keogh

@universitycollegecork | @artscouncilireland

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Huge thanks to Fiona Kearney, Director of The Glucksman for this insightful article on my work in the Irish Arts Review. Very honoured to be featured!

IRISH ARTS REVIEW/ SUMMER 2026
CURATOR’S CHOICE
Fiona Kearney selects Claire Halpin’s painting Panorama Europa from the University College Cork Art Collection

“As the title suggests, Panorama Europa presents a wide-ranging view of Europe that encompasses geographic, historic and cultural relationships.
The painting shifts from images that evoke the religious traditions and conflicted histories of the island of Ireland on the far left through to the civic-realm architecture of Eastern Europe and China’s Belt and Road initiative on the right, moving through depictions of war, public protest and totalitarian gatherings.

There are references to celebrated paintings such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s The Tower of Babel (c. 1563), Caravaggio’s Medusa (c. 1597) and Seán Keating’s Men of the South (1921-1922), and other cultural signifiers. This extraordinary work is filled with allusions to military history, cartography,
religion, past civilisations and contemporary society that fill the canvas and encourage us to understand these plural, and often contentious, perspectives of what it means to be European in the 21st century.

…..The Glucksman research-led commission in partnership with the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence for EU Integration and Citizens” Rights at University College Cork (UCC), inviting the artist Claire Halpin to create an artwork for the UCC
Art Collection that considered anti-discrimination rights in the context of EU relations with Northern İreland, Ukraine and China.

As Ireland assumes the presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2026, the Glucksman will display Panorama Europa in the civic space of the museum until 1 November 2026.

@irisharts_review
@fionakearney
@theglucksman
@schooloflawucc

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A gorgeous day of sunshine and tennis 🎾🥳🕶️

We couldn’t have asked for a better Finals Day 🙌🏻

#proudofourclub @unio_wealth_management

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