Our MA in Early & Medieval Irish is concerned with Early Irish language and literature in the period from 600AD to 1200AD and focuses on the study of language, grammar, texts, and their historical and literary contexts. Our students are encouraged to develop their skills in close reading of sources, and in close analysis of the medieval Irish language. You will also have the opportunity to study medieval Welsh and Latin, and to take advanced courses in literary studies, palaeography, and textual editing. Provision has been made for supervised independent research to allow you to broaden and deepen your scholarly interests, while a 20,000-word thesis gives scope to postgraduates to complete a significant piece of work in a specific area of interest.

 

On successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• translate selected Early Irish texts;
• comment grammatically on particular words, phrases, or sentences within these texts;
• transcribe Early Irish texts from manuscript sources;
• write and present a research paper on an agreed topic;
• translate selected Medieval Welsh texts;
• submit the results of supervised research in a dissertation of 20,000 words, with full scholarly apparatus.