The Cumann Staire - Historical Society is one of the oldest student societies in UCC; the campus of which is located on the site of the famous centre of learning founded by St Fionnbarra in the sixth century. The 2011 the annual conference of the CCS - IHSA was organised and hosted by the society on the university's beautiful riverside campus. Seo an chéad uair ó 2003 go raibh an chomhdháil ar bhruacha na Laoi agus d'éirí go mór leo deireadh seachtaine iontach a eagrú. The society hits the ground running this year on 10/09/2011 with a talk by Gerry White talk on Cork's involvement in the Great War / World War I. Further information available on the facebook profile page.

Tá Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh (COC) ar cheithre chomh-ollscoil Ollscoil Náisiúnta na hÉireann. Is mar Choláiste na Banríona a céadbhunaíodh COC in 1845 agus tá sí ar na hinstitiúidí ardoideachais is sine in Éirinn. Bunaíodh dhá choláiste banríona eile i mBéal Feirste agus i nGaillimh i dtrátha an ama céanna. Ceaptar baint a bheith ag an gcéad suíomh a roghnaíodh don Ollscoil le Fionnbarra, Naomh Chorcaí, a bhunaigh mainistir agus scoil léinn in aice na hOllscoile. Is dá thairbhe sin gurb é Ionad Bairre Scoil na Mumhan is mana don Ollscoil inniu.
The university has 16,000 full-time students. 13,000 are undergraduate students while 3,000 are on postgraduate programmes. UCC’s diverse student-body includes 2,000 international students representing 80-plus countries worldwide.
History whas been offered as an academic subject since the foundation of Queen’s College Cork. In 1849, History students were enrolled among the first group of scholars. The School of History has approximately 30 full-time and part-time teaching staff, and was formed with the merger of the three former Departments of History. Undergraduate student numbers are large and growing, complemented by the high number of graduate research students.

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