A new daytime art history option to be hosted by Triskel-Christchurch from September

In response to popular demand, Adult Continuing Education is pleased to announce an exciting new collaboration with the Triskel Arts Centre at Christchurch, to host the Certificate and Diploma in European Art History as a daytime programme, for the first time in its twenty-one year existence, beginning in late September 2012.

The daytime option will run in association with the existing evening programme. There are now two options available:

European Art History (evening option) classes will take place in West Wing 9, in the main UCC Quadrangle, 7-9pm on Tuesday evenings from the end of September 2012.

European Art History (daytime option) classes will take place in Triskel-Christchurch in Cork city centre, 10-1pm on Tuesday mornings from the end of September 2012.

Classes are scheduled to take place in the historic Alms Room, which only has a capacity for fifteen people. For this reason, early booking is essential.

About the venue
The original building of Christchurch took place around 1050 and is thought to be of Hiberno-Norse, or Viking origin and that it also may have been the first church built in Cork city. 

Triskel-Christchurch

Present-day Christchurch,, known also as the Holy Trinity, sits discreetly in the background of Bishop Lucey Park on Grand Parade. The entrance to Christchurch is located on South Main Street, once the main street of medieval Cork. Present-day Christchurch is an eighteenth-century neoclassical Georgian building (1720–1726) designed by architect John Coltsman. Coltsman also designed the North and South Gate Bridges, of which the South Gate Bridge has one of the oldest surviving three-centred arches in Ireland. The front of Christchurch was redesigned by George Richard Pain in 1825 and he was later involved in remodelling the interior. The present-day church sits on the site of two previous churches dating back to medieval times. 
Christchurch has many legends attached to its legacy, one being that in 1439 Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the English throne, came to Cork. Warbeck, claiming to be Richard, Duke of York was officially recognized by the Lord Mayor of Cork and his councilors and was crowned in Christchurch as King Richard IV of England. Another legendary figure associated with Christchurch is the poet Edmund Spenser (1552-1599). Local tradition has it that Spenser married Elizabeth Boyle in Christchurch on Midsummer Day, 11 June 1594. Read a history of Christchurch.  

Alms Room, Christchurch

How to apply

Please note that applications are currently being taken online at apply online

or 

Download an application form.


Please mark your preferred option either “daytime” or “evening” when making your application.