MA (Irish Studies)—full-time and part-time

The MA in Irish Studies is a one year interdisciplinary programme drawing on the disciplines of English, History, and Irish and including sociological and political science perspectives. The programme focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and seeks to provide for participants a critical interrogation of key junctions and issues in the historical, cultural and social development of modern Ireland. The approach will be interdisciplinary throughout, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of the Irish experience since the early nineteenth century.

A wide range of political and literary texts and other forms of cultural representation will be studied as primary material, and students will be encouraged to make interconnections between the various strands of their course.

Modules include:

• Ideology, Politics and Society in Ireland 1800-1921 (10 ECTS)
• Young Ireland to the Free State: Writing in English 1849-1922 (10 ECTS)
• Decline and Revival: Language, Literature and Society 1800-1939 (10 ECTS)
• Divided Ireland: Politics and Society since 1921 (10 ECTS)
• The Politics of Modernity: Writing in English 1922 to the present (10 ECTS)
• Gaelic and Free: Cultural Politics and Writing in Irish since 1939 (10 ECTS)
• Dissertation (30 ECTS) Irish language classes at levels appropriate to students’ needs run in both semesters. Continuous assessment is employed and all students must be deemed Satisfactory in Irish in order to graduate.

The teaching language of the MA programme is English.