SLCL Image Gallery

Prof Michael Brophy, Prof. Marie-Andrée Beaudet and students of the module 'Literature of Quebec'

The exhibition in the Schools hallway

Official launch event in the School's seminar room. 

Left to right: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse (Head of School, UCD SLCL), Jennifer Velasco (Policy Coordinator, Government of Catalonia in the UK and Ireland), Pere Almeda (Director of Institut Ramon Llull), UCD President Orla Feely, Josep-Anton Fernàndez, (Director of Universities and Language, Institute Ramon Llull), Dr Eva Bru-Dominguez (Head of Spanish, UCD SLCL), Professor Regina Uí Chollatáin (Principal UCD College of Arts and Humanities), Marc Dueñas (Delegate of the Institut Ramon Llull in the UK and Ireland), Beatriu Daniel (arts producer) and Toni Jodar (artist and dance teacher)

Dr Lucille Raynal and her supervisor, Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse

From left to right: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse (Head of School, UCD SLCL), Prof Michael Cronin (Trinity College Dublin), Assoc Prof Emerita Phyllis Gaffney (Adjunct Professor, UCD SLCL), Professor Grace Neville (Emerita, University College Cork), Dr Kelly Fitzgerald (Head of School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore)

Opening of the event in the George Moore Auditorium. 

As part of the event the winner of the literary competition was announced, poetry read and music played.

From left to right: New Ross alumni and current BA student Helen Roche, current MA student Gia Simmons and Dr Stephen Lucek

Head of School, Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse and invited speaker,  Professor Ita Mac Carthy (Durham University)

From left to right: Assoc Prof Derval Conroy (UCD SLCL, Chair of the Examination committee), Lucille Raynal, Dr Isabelle Tremblay (Special External Examiner)

Left: Dr Mara Josi (now University of Ghent, formerly UCD IRC Postdoctoral Researcher) 

Right: Prof. Ursula Fanning (UCD SLCL, Italian)

Our students and lecturers in their official graduation gowns.

Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse (Head of School) and H.E. Vincent Guérend (Ambassador of France)

From left to right: Andrea, Georgina, Aoife, Kristina, Ciana, Lara and Harry

Official launch, from left to right: Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse (Head of School), Dr Marco Bellardi (Head of Italian), Jessica Fahy (Freelance Art Historian) and Marco Gioacchini (Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in Dublin)

From left to right: Ms Ana Margarida Fernandes Alves (Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of Portugal in Ireland), Mr Seán Gilley (Co-Director, Terroirs Importer and Retailer of Fine Wine, Donnybrook Dublin - Sponsors of Port Lecture), Mr Henrique Sousa de Azevedo (Deputy Ambassador and Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of Portugal in Ireland), Mr Felipe Costi Santarosa (Deputy Ambassador and Chargé d'Affaires at the Embassy of Brazil in Ireland), H.E. Bernardo de Lucena (Portuguese Ambassador to Ireland), Assoc. Prof. Síofra Pierse (Head of UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and UCD Head of Portuguese), Dr Richard Mayson (Lecturer for Portuguese Day; expert on Port and Madeira), Prof. Colin Scott (UCD Registrar), Mme Françoise Gilley (Co-Director, Terroirs Importer and Retailer of Fine Wine, Donnybrook, Dublin - Sponsors of Port Lecture)

Mestre Sansão and students at our Capoeira Workshop. 

MALI students at their first orientation session. 

Dr Tara Plunkett and Katherine Gosling

Conference organisers Dr Bianca Cataldi (third from left) and Dr Marco Bellardi (right) with invited keynote speakers and guests of 'Giuseppe Pontiggia: On the 20th anniversary of his death'.

(from left to right: Dr Erika Teichert, Dr Marco Bellardi, Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse, Assoc Prof Derval Conroy, Dr Tara Plunkett)

Former students joining our colleague, Dr Sabine Strümper-Krobb, at her retirement reception. 

Dr Manu Braganca and Ms Zeineb Bahri

Dr Mohammad Alenezi and Dr Emma Marie Dunne at their graduation ceremony

Director Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, Head of School Assoc Prof Síofra Pierse, Portuguese Ambassador H.E. Bernardo de Lucena and Dr Romeu Foz at the screening of 'Jose and Pilar'.

Congratulations to Assoc Prof Derval Conroy who has been awarded the distinction of the medal of 'Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques' by the French Embassy in recognition of her services to the promotion of French language and culture within the Irish educational context

Members of SLCL and H.E. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa

Head of Chancellery Oscar Rafael Suarez Peña (Embassy of Peru), Deputy Head of School Assoc Prof Máire Ní Chiosáin (UCD SLCL, Linguistics), movie director Eduardo Guillot, Ambassador to Peru H.E. Ana María Sánchez Vargas De Ríos and Dr Mary Farrelly (UCD SLCL, Spanish)

H.E. Carla Serazzi (Ambassador of Chile to Ireland) and Dr. Síofra Pierse (Head of School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics UCD) at the Inaugural Event: Encounter Between Three Worlds