Course details

The MA in Irish Literature and Culture offers a unique opportunity to follow a programme in the field of Irish cultural studies that is tailored to the student’s particular research interests. The MA in Irish Literature and Culture is a fully modular MA programme, offered in conjunction with the MA in Postcolonial and World Literatures, making it possible to select modules from both programmes. The MA in Irish Literature and Culture contains not only modules dealing with major figures in Irish literature (Joyce, Beckett, and Yeats); there are also modules exploring Irish visual culture (photography and film). This programme thus provides an opportunity to study Irish literature in its wider cultural context. In addition, it is possible for students interested in gender to take modules from across the suite of MA programmes to make up a programme with a concentration in this area; by the same token, a student with an interest in modernism might take modules from across both programmes to follow a specialism in that area. The MA in Irish Literature and Culture also contains modules in cultural theory, and research skills. Students spend the summer months writing a dissertation on a research topic of their choosing, under the mentorship of a faculty member.

Entry Requirements

B.A. degree with a subject mark in English, or a cognate discipline, of 2.1 or higher, or international equivalent. 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

  • EVOLUTION OF THE IRISH URBAN LANDSCAPE
  • POSTCOLONIAL TEXTS AND QUEER THEORY
  • DISSERTATION AND RESEARCH SKILLS
  • LITERARY AND CULTURAL THEORY
  • THE EVOLUTION OF IRISH LANDED ESTATES AND DESIGNED LANDSCAPES
  • CONTEMPORARY IRISH FILM
  • RECONSTRUCTING SLAVERY
  • WORD AND IMAGE IN IRISH CULTURE
  • QUEER BEINGS: WRITING GENDER, WRITING SEXUALITY
  • THEORY & ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE II
  • THEORY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC PRACTICE IV
  • SEXUALITY, HISTORY AND NARRATIVE FORM IN 20TH CENTURY IRISH WRITING
  • MODERNISMS AND WORLD CRISIS
  • IRISH LITERARY MODERNISM
  • POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICISM: IRELAND IN A COMPARATIVE FRAMEWORK
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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