MA English - Irish Writing and Film

This course will provide you with a comprehensive analysis of Irish literature and film while also encouraging you to develop as an independent and creative researcher and writer. The MA is taught by a deeply committed team who are actively engaged in research and who have international reputations in the study of Irish culture. Our team will guide and mentor you in your choice of dissertation topics and provide strong academic support throughout the degree.

The MA in Irish Writing and Film draws on rich academic expertise from our School of English. The course is unusual in integrating the study of Irish literature and film within a carefully designed academic programme and in teaching the entire history of Irish literature and film from the early eighteenth century to the present within innovatively designed modules. This course will offer you a unique opportunity to receive expert teaching in Irish culture while advancing new research and developing your own critical voice.

Our School of English has a high concentration of staff with expertise in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Irish cultural theory, the study of Irish modernism and the study of gender and sexuality. We also offer innovative teaching in such cutting-edge approaches as ecocriticism, pscyhogeography and transnational poetics.