Discover Cork Migrant Centre
The Cork Migrant Centre (CMC), is based at Nano Nagle Place in Cork City. It was established by the Presentation Sisters in 2006. The Presentation Sisters were founded by Nano Nagle in the late 18th Century. Nano’s mission was one of education and social justice for the most disadvantaged young people in Cork. The Presentation Sisters have carried that legacy forward both in Ireland and across the world. Today, the work at Nano Nagle Place aims to tell Nano’s incredible and inspirational life story and to bring that alive in the 21st Century. This is done through its Community Hub.
Cork Migrant Centre is based in this community hub and provides free, confidential and current information on access to services and immigration issues. The Centre is committed to advocating on behalf of migrant children, families, and communities, and to ensure they have access to the services and supports they need to alleviate the day to day challenges and provide them the best possible opportunities to empower them individually and collectively.
Coffee Morning
This activity involves creating a safe space for mothers and babies/toddlers to give them an opportunity to create social bonds, to network and engage in health promoting activities.
Currently, this group has over 50 mothers and over 10 babies and toddlers weekly. In these coffee mornings that take place every Friday morning 10.00 – 12.30 a.m., mothers participate in capacity building activities facilitated by skilled psychosocial practitioners while the babies toddlers are engaged in play in the form of developmentally appropriate ‘music for babies’ sessions facilitated by music therapists.
English Classes
We are excited to announce that registration for our Autumn English courses is now open!
Whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced learner, our classes are tailored to help you improve your English skills in a supportive and engaging environment. Classes will be held on-site in the Ash Room from September 23rd to December 4th, running from Monday to Wednesday, 10 AM – 12 PM and 2 PM – 4 PM. The courses span 10 weeks, with a mid-term break from October 28th to November 1st. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your language proficiency—register on our open days, September 5th, 6th, 12th, or 13th.
All classes are held in person at the Cork Migrant Centre (Evergreen St., Cork City, T12XPX8).
Classes are free.We look forward to welcoming you!
Events
The Cork Migrant Centre hosts a variety of events aimed at promoting integration, cultural exchange, and community building. These include workshops, exhibitions, and collaborative projects like the International Garden Project and anti-racist summits.
The events are designed to create safe spaces where migrants can connect with the local community, share experiences, and contribute to meaningful initiatives that enhance social cohesion and well-being.
For more details and upcoming events, you can visit the Cork Migrant Centre's Events page.
Cork City Libraries Event
Cork City Partnership is offering a range of professional training courses aimed at enhancing skills and promoting workplace safety. All courses come with certification, and many offer multilingual support in Arabic and Ukrainian.
From 1st March
Borrow a Poet from
The Poets Library
Poets will dissect their poems sharing origins, influences, and the skills that make it impactful.
Poets include
Lucy Holme, Daragh Fleming, Molly Twomey, Rosalin Blue, James O'Leary, Colm Scully, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Anton Floyd, Patrick Cotter.
International Garden
Present day Ireland is a multicultural society. 17.2% of the total population is comprised of non-nationals, from 202 nationalities (CSO, 2016). Included in this are vulnerable individuals seeking International Protection from the state, often accommodated in Direct Provision Centres (DPs) spread across the country. There are approximately 9560 adults and children accommodated in DPs – including those in Emergency Accommodation Centres, such as asylum seekers or resettlement refugees. In Cork Country there are approximately 250 families and 320 children living across six DP centres.
The Aim
The aim is to provide asylum seekers, refugees, and migrants in general, an opportunity to be involved in gardening work in cooperation with local members of the community, towards supporting their wellbeing and integration into society. The objective is to work towards creating a network of gardens in close proximity to the DPs in Cork, that would be independently run but in consultancy with a committee from this group. This model becomes the connecting tool within this network of communities, and across other ethnic minority groups involved in the community garden.
Disentagled Workshops
Cork Migrant Centre & Cork College of FET hosted workshops for the UN's Decade for People of African Descent, focusing on hair care challenges for Irish citizens of African heritage. Held in a state-of-the-art hair studio, April sessions included an informative workshop on accessible products and a practical demonstration using advanced technology.
Event Goals
01
Breaking the silence about Afro Hair, leading to a better understanding of cultural heritage, and its functional role in nurturing a sense of identity/sense of self.
02
Creating a forum or 'Safe Space' for continued learning and creating a pilot program that can be fine-tuned and replicated across the country.
03
Creating a shared learning space, directed towards changing the narrative from viewing managing African hair as tiresome, time-consuming to a positive one that entails knowledge and skills of managing African/mixed race natural hair.
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Increasing the ability to manage Afro Hair and raise awareness about the need for an inclusive hairdressing training curriculum.
A Feminist Walk of Cork focuses on celebrating the contribution of women to art, culture, society and the city; exploring the role of women in addressing sexual and social inequalities, and building fairer, safer communities. The walk, which is the first in a series of walks, writes women into the spaces and topography of the city.
The walk was created in discussion with MA Women's Studies, MA Anthropology, BA Sociology & Criminology students and Dr Naomi Masheti, Cork Migrant Centre; Danielle O’Donovan, Nano Nagle Place; Mary Crilly, Sexual Violence Centre Cork; Eileen O’Shea, Traveller Visibility Group; John Barimo, Mother Jones Plaque and James Cronin, Honan Chapel. The thematic focus is on celebrating the contribution of women to art, culture, society and the city; exploring the role of women in addressing sexual and social inequalities, and building fairer, safer communities....
