Irish Writing (M.Phil./P.Grad.Dip), M.Phil.

University of Dublin Trinity College, School of English

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Language, Literature and Cultural Studies

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Country:	Ireland	Duration:	12 Months
City:	Dublin	Start Date:	October
Educational Form:	Research	Languages:	English
Education Variants:	Full Time
Application Deadline:	1 March
Annual Tuition Fee:	€ 7250 € 12602 (non-EEA)

Programme Description

Irish Writing in English since the sixteenth century has involved a remarkable flowering of creativity in a wide variety of genres. Trinity College has often been to the fore in this and numbers such major figures as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Beckett among its graduates. The well-known contemporary writers William Trevor, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Eavan Boland, Sebastian Barry and Anne Enright continue a tradition that has seen many of the college's graduates contribute to Ireland's reputation as a country in which excellent writing is produced and celebrated.

The course in Irish Writing offers graduates in English or related disciplines (e.g. history, art history, Irish Studies, a modern language) the opportunity to study the broad range of Irish Writing in English. A central element of the course requires students to concentrate on four major literary figures: Jonathan Swift, W.B.Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. This course is accompanied by a further required course which offers students a series of perspectives on Irish Writing, from the sixteenth century to the present day. There is also a course on Research Methods which trains students in literary scholarship and its presentation. These elements are complemented by a series of option courses from which students are invited to select two in a given year, one in each semester.

The course is designed to be complete in itself but can serve as preparation for those wishing to proceed to further research in the field. Assessment is by presented essays and a dissertation.

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The main authors of Anglo-Irish literature - Swift, Edgeworth, Yeats, Joyce, Beckett are studied in two weekly two-hour seminars in the Michaelmas and Hilary terms.
There is a series of lectures on the contexts of Anglo-Irish literature in the Michaelmas term.
There is a course in Research Methods in the Michaelmas and Hilary term.
A number of special subjects are offered in Michaelmas and Hilary terms. These special subjects may vary from year to year according to staff availability. They have included in the past: Literature and Violence; Literary Myths of the Revival; Irish Drama and the Metropolitan Theatre; Modernism and Irish Poetry; Gothic and Fantasy Literature; Irish Fiction after Joyce; Irish Women´s Writing; Cinema and Ireland. Students are required to select a special subject in Michaelmas term. In place of one of the special subjects offered in Hilary Term, students may enrol for a Creative Writing workshop which meets in Hilary term. Entry to this part of the course is based on assessment of a portfolio of the student´s writing, which must be submitted before the end of the Michaelmas term.

A dissertation (12,000-15,000 words) is planned in consultation with a Course Director in Hilary term and is prepared and written under the guidance of a supervisor in the Trinity term and in the long vacation (July to September).
Assessment is by a combination of course papers, presented work and dissertation.

You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.

Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.

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Requirements

Applicants should have a good honors degree (at least an upper second or equivalent, GPA of at least 3.3). Some previous knowledge of Anglo-Irish literature is also desirable. Admission to the course is competitive due to a restricted quota.

All applicants whose first language is not English and who have not been educated through the medium of English must present one of the following qualifications in the

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