20 IMPACT REPORT 2020-21
Tribute to a Benefactor: €2 million legacy to Music Sidney V. Regan left €2 million to the Department of Music in his estate and University College Cork is hugely grateful for this exceptionally generous bequest to support music at UCC. His gift will enable UCC to build on the great tradition of Aloys Fleischmann, Seán Ó Riada, Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, and more recently musicians like Ann Cleare, Karen Power, Karen Desmond, Julie Feeney, Rosaleen Molloy, Eibhlín Gleeson,
Jack O’Rourke and so many others in inspiring the creation, performance and study of music for future generations. Sidney V. Regan, a British master builder, and his wife Hilda moved to Cobh from the UK in the 1960s where they soon became involved in the local music scene. Sidney joined the Commodore Male Voice Choir and founded the Cobh Gramophone
