The Universities Act 1997 renamed the university as National University of Ireland, Cork, and a Ministerial Order of 1998 renamed the university as University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork, though it continues to be almost universally known as University College Cork.
По «Irish Universities Act» 1908 года колледж стал частью Национального университета Ирландии и был переименован в «University College, Cork».