- Location: Maynooth University, North Campus, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland - Ireland
- Duration: 4 to 6 Years
Course details
The aim of this programme is to provide students with a professional training in advanced academic research in early Irish literature, language and history, to deepen their knowledge in specific areas of these, and to endow them with the research skills appropriate to work in this field.
Entry Requirements
A student beginning a PhD will have a postgraduate degree such as MA or MLitt honours, and will normally have a First Class Honours in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies in the BA or an equivalent qualification from elsewhere. A good knowledge of Old Irish is required in order to enter a research degree in Medieval Irish. 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
- GRAMMAR AND READINGS IN MIDDLE IRISH
- MEDIEVAL IRISH SAGAS AND MYTHOLOGY
- LEARNED LITERATURE OF MEDIEVAL IRELAND
- GRAMMAR AND READINGS IN OLD IRISH
- READINGS FROM EARLY IRISH LITERATURE 3
- MANUSCRIPT READINGS AND TEXTUAL EDITING
- HANDLING EVIDENCE
- PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE IN POSTGRADUATE TEACHING & LEARNING : TUTORS & DEMONSTRATORS
- RESEARCH SEMINAR IN MEDIEVAL IRISH AND CELTIC STUDIES
- READINGS FROM EARLY IRISH LITERATURE 4
- INTRODUCTION TO PALAEOGRAPHY
- PALAEOGRAPHY AND MANUSCRIPT CULTURE
- PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYABILITY MODULE
- FINDING INFORMATION FOR YOUR THESIS
- ACADEMIC WRITING MODULE
- CREATIVE THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING
- SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: MAKING A REAL DIFFERENCE
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (CONFERENCE PRESENTATION)
- ADVANCED COMMUNICATION SKILLS (PUBLICATION)
- SEMINAR SERIES
- WINTER/SUMMER SCHOOL
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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