Discover the Magic of University College Cork

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A big welcome to University College Cork from J.P. Quinn, Head of UCC Visitor Centre.
UCC is a world class teaching and research led university. A place full of knowledge and wonder. This building is the Main Quadrangle. Many people think that The Quadrangle building looks like Hogwarts - a building full of magic. In UCC all of our buildings are filled with magic and the wands or tools that we use to conduct this magic is research.
Just outside the door of UCC Visitors’ Centre is our wonderful collection of Ogham Stones. These stones once stood in many fields and mountainsides in the South of Ireland and have been brought here to UCC so that more people can see these artefacts. The stones are approximately 1,500 to 2,000 years old and they are called Ogham Stones because they contain the Celtic alphabet of Ogham. Ogham is an ancient alphabet made up of 25 letters that was inspired by Ogma the Celtic God of Eloquence. Ogham was carved from and read from the bottom left of the stone.
In front of our Main Quadrangle building is the grass area known as the Quad. It is divided into four square sections with a gravel pathway running horizontally and vertically through the middle. This pathway has led to the creation of the most popular urban myth in the college today. After their Conferrings graduating students, in their graduation gowns and hats, would proceed onto the Quad and march down the pathway in the middle. Marching through the Quad symbolically marked the transition from student life to the next phase of their post college life. However, over the last sixty years or so many students began to believe that walking in a straight line through the Quad before graduation would lead to bad luck, such as failing exams. Most students now try and avoid walking through the Quad so as not to tempt fate!
One of our universities most famous scientists and researchers was George Boole. George Boole became the first professor of mathematics of UCC in 1849. Boole devised a type of code called Boolean Logic which was later used in the foundation of Computer Science. Your mobile phone, your computer, your iPad, and your x box all require the application of Boolean Logic. Boolean Logic that was devised here at University College Cork. Boole was a real life mathematical wizard and as far as we are concerned Boole is Cool. Funnily enough the bust has led to a new superstition amongst students who now believe that rubbing the statues nose gives them good luck before their exams. The nose on the statue has begun to wear away as a result an occurrence that would no doubt amuse George Boole himself.
We hoped you have enjoyed a little look at a few of the many things there are to UCC - a place full of research, magic and discovery.
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Cork Discovers is proudly brought to you by UCC Academy, University College Cork, Teagasc, Cork City Council, CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory and British Council with special thanks to our media partners 96FM and Irish Examiner. This project has received funding the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement no. 955330