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Visit this page to learn how Music can be taken as part of the MIC Arts Degree as a joint honours combination. The music programme at MIC explores the history and language of music and is designed to enable students to develop technical, analytical, critical, performing, aural and creative skills.

The Mary Immaculate College (MIC) Thurles Summer School returns this June with a two-day on-campus event featuring leading national and international educationalists. Held on Tuesday 13 and Wednesday 14 June, the MIC Thurles Summer School will explore the 1998 Education Act, the progress made under it over a quarter of a century, and the journey yet to be travelled in supporting the principles of the Act.

The Gender Identity & Expression Equality Champion Network represents a voluntary community of individuals working in relevant roles within their HEI to establish gender equality. MIC is a part of this voluntary network.

Mary Immaculate College (MIC) has welcomed the significant funding made available to fourteen first year trainees on MIC’s highly sought-after three-year full-time Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology (DECPsy). Arising from the workforce planning needs of both the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) and the Health Service Executive (HSE), the new funding arrangements were highlighted at the inaugural Professional Doctorate in Educational and Child Psychology Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) meeting held at MIC on Monday (23 October).  The Committee is an advisory body to the DECPsy programme with membership including senior representatives from the programmes funding partners, NEPS and the HSE.  

The Network for Researchers in Catholic Education Annual Conference, hosted by Mary Immaculate College, in partnership with the Irish Institute for Catholic Studies and the Catholic Association of Teachers, Schools, and Colleges, will take place on Thursday 19 & Friday 20 October 2023. Our conference, the theme of which is 'Fluidly Failthful? Catholic Education and the Institutional Church', will ponder the nature of the relationship between Catholic Education and the wider Catholic Church.

A new book from MIC academic, Dr Brighid Golden, aims to act as a core text to empower educators to teach global citizenship education. Global Citizenship Education: Curious Teachers, Critical Classrooms brings together the knowledge, expertise, and wisdom of well-respected experts working in the sector and presents the most important considerations for educators to develop their understanding and awareness of Global Citizenship Education (GCE).

A new book from MIC’s Head of the Department of Philosophy, Dr Daniel Vázquez, tackles the suspension of belief in ancient Greek philosophy.

A new book co-edited by an MIC historian charts the stories of Limerick’s Protestant communities during the Irish revolutionary period. Histories of Protestant Limerick, 1912-1923 is a collection of essays edited by Dr Brian Hughes, Lecturer in 20th Century Irish history at MIC, and Dr Séan William Gannon, Limerick City and County Library Services.

Lakes in Ireland: Mirrors of Change, a publication co-authored by Mary Immaculate College Geography lecturer, Dr Catherine Dalton, and freely available to the public, brings together leading experts to present an in-depth exploration of Ireland’s lakes in terms of their history, geography, science and the growing threats they face.

A new initiative from Mary Immaculate College (MIC) aims to support and share knowledge with educators to encourage opportunities to support an ethos and practice of diversity, inclusion and integration in learning settings. The MIC Teaching for Inclusion Seminar Series commences this month (September) and is free and open to the primary teaching community. The series will be delivered online meaning it will be available to teachers nationwide.