University College Cork

I’ll admit that I didn’t really know a lot about the place that eLSI was taking place at prior to arriving in Cork.  But University College Cork (UCC) is actually quite a big school–there are over 15,000 students!

Other fun facts about UCC:

• It was founded in 1845
• It is said that St. Finbarr (the patron Saint of Cork)  founded a monastery and school in in 6th century on the same land that UCC stand on now.
• It receives over 74 million Euro a year in research funding
• And George Boole (the father of Boolean logic) used to teach at UCC

Kind of neat to have all that at the same school that I’m taking classes at.