Trinity College Dublin - Early Irish
Qualification Type : Masters - Degree
Qualification Letters : MPhil
Attendance Options : 2 Years Full-Time
Course Overview/Contact:
The M.Phil. course builds on the material presented in the Postgraduate Diploma in Old Irish. Applicants will therefore normally have successfully completed the latter course, though persons with equivalent competence in Old Irish but who have not successfully completed the diploma are also eligible to apply. All candidates undertake core courses in Old Irish prose, Old Irish poetry, Primitive and Archaic Irish, Early Irish law and Middle Irish. In addition students attend a series of guest lectures organised by the department, and all undertake a dissertation of 20,000 words.
Course Options:
Course Url
www.tcd.ie/langs-lits-cultures/postgraduate/early_irish/
Course Email
Next Intake
September 2017
Closing Date
31st March 2017
Programme Content:
The MPhil in Early Irish is designed to prepare students to take on full-time research in the area of Early Irish language and literature. Building on the Postgraduate Diploma in Old Irish it tackles more advanced Old Irish texts, both prose and poetry, and expands the students’ horizons back into Primitive Irish, Ogam, Latin loanwords and Continental Celtic as well as forward into Middle Irish linguistic and textual analysis. Students with a grade of II.2 (i.e. 50% +) in the Postgraduate Diploma in Old Irish, or with an equivalent qualification in Old Irish, are eligible to apply for the M. Phil. The course extends over the two semesters (total of 22 weeks instruction) and performance is assessed by a combination of examination (50%) and thesis (50%).
