- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 1 Year
Course details
This MA enables students to explore and examine the rich tradition of early Irish literature and intellectual culture, from the early medieval period and the advent of Christianity until the coming of the Normans at the end of the 12th century. It also enables students to deepen their acquaintance with the language of the period, and to endow them with a set of research skills appropriate to work in this field.
Entry Requirements
- A 2.1 in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies in the BA or an equivalent qualification.
- An interview will be part of the selection process.
- Applicants must have a recognised primary degree which is considered equivalent to Irish university primary degree level.
Minimum English language requirements
- IELTS: 6.5 minimum overall score
- TOEFL (Paper based test): 585
- TOEFL (Internet based test): 95
- PTE (Pearson): 62
Module
Year 1
- OLD IRISH LANGUAGE 1
- OLD IRISH LANGUAGE 2
- THESIS
- LEARNED LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND
- MEDIEVAL IRISH SAGAS AND MYTHOLOGY
- PALAEOGRAPHY AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE
- DEVELOPING RESEARCH SKILLS IN MEDIEVAL IRISH STUDIES 1
- DEVELOPING RESEARCH SKILLS IN MEDIEVAL IRISH STUDIES 2
- INTRODUCTION TO PALAEOGRAPHY
- READINGS FROM EARLY IRISH LITERATURE 3
- READINGS FROM EARLY IRISH LITERATURE 4
Course Location
About Maynooth University
This means that students at Maynooth benefit from an international outlook, and those of you who wish to study abroad for a semester or an academic year during yTheir degree have a network of connections to tap in to. During the cTheirse of their academic degree students from Maynooth have studied subjects such as Law at Boston College, Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Music in the University of Vienna.
Maynooth has many shared research projects with universities around the world.
- In the Dept of Psychology, Prof Dermot Barnes-Holmes is working with academics in Columbia University in New York to predict the success of cocaine abuse treatment.
- Mathematician Dr. Ken Duffy is working with immunologists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in MelbTheirne, Australia to analyse cell behaviTheir in a study that could have significant implications for Their understanding and treatment of diseases like Coeliac disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis.
- Historian Dr Tom O Connor is working with colleagues from the University of Alcala and the Irish Colleges in Spain, discovering the hidden stories of Irish people who got caught up in the Spanish Inquisition.
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