21 Area/Cultural Studies Masters in Ireland

Master in Irish Literature and Culture

The M.A. 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 M.A. in Irish Literature and Culture is a fully modular M.A. programme, offered in conjunction with the M.A. in Postcolonial and World Literatures, making it possible to select modules from both programmes.

Master in Contemporary Chinese Culture & Business

University College Cork

The aim of the MA in Contemporary Chinese Culture and Business programme is to provide students with an advanced understanding of Chinese society including culture, education, social system, politics, law, business and management;

Master in Ethnomusicology

University of Limerick

The MA in Ethnomusicology is a one-year, full-time programme, which considers music in its cultural context. Ethnomusicology provides an alternative approach to the study of Irish Traditional Music, Popular Music and World Music.

Master in Gender, Culture & Society

University of Limerick

This new MA programme, offered for the first time in 2009-10, has been designed specifically to cater for students interested in the interdisciplinary study of gender in culture and society. Students can opt for modules offered by several departments in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and may choose to specialise in historical, socio-political or literary / cultural approaches to gender.

Master in Early & Medieval Irish

University College Cork

This programme covers Early Irish Language and Literature of Ireland pre 1200 and includes the study of language, grammar, texts, and their historical and literary contexts.

Master in Literatures of the Americas

University of Dublin Trinity College

In the past twenty years the scholarly fields of American Literature, American Studies and Postcolonial Studies have undergone radical transformations.This course reflects on those changes and provides an exciting new postgraduate course of study for high calibre students.

Master in Irish Folklore

University College Cork

A comprehensive examination of the history of folkloristics and ethnology. Special attention will be given to the intellectual history, linking it to the major theories both in the development of the discipline and in the practice of the discipline today.

Master in Music and Cultural History

University College Cork

Designed to introduce students to the history, theory and practice of musicology, the programme is both self-contained as a programme in its own right and also ideal as a preparation for candidates who have the ambition to progress subsequently to doctoral research in musicology.

Master in Anthropology of Ireland in European & Global Context

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

A taught Masters degree programme thematically oriented toward the discipline as a comparative enterprise, while developing the necessary theoretical and methodological research tools.

Master in Anthropology (CREOLE)

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

CREOLE is an innovative two-year degree, funded under the EU SOCRATES Programme, where students are required to spend two of the four semesters at European Partner institutions.

Master in Ritual Chant and Song

University of Limerick

The MA in Ritual Chant and Song is a one-year, full-time programme in ritual vocal repertoires, contextualised by a programme of study in ritual theory and liturgical history.

Master in English (American Literature & Film)

University College Cork

This MA (CKE27) will offer students advanced interdisciplinary study in American cultural representations. Students will explore a wide range of film, literature and related texts from the nineteenth century intellectual foundations to contemporary representations of American culture.