BA English and Irish
Entry requirements
A level: ABB including A-level English and Irish Note: for applicants who have not studied A-level English then AS-level English (grade A) would be acceptable in lieu of A-level English.
About this course
BA in English and BA (Hons) Irish with History, exploring literary works across multiple traditions and historical contexts. Core topics include Historical Research, Data Analysis, Research Methods, Fieldwork, and Critical & Analytical Thinking. Students examine materials ranging from early Anglo-Saxon texts to contemporary global literatures, alongside the cultural and linguistic study of the Irish language.
Modules
- English in Transition
- Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology
- Introduction to English Language
- Gaeilge 1
- Celtic Mythology
- Gaeilge 2
- Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World
- Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English
- Language and Power
- History of English: Studying Language Change
- Scottish Gaelic Language 1
- Shakespeare and Co
- Irish Literature
- Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England
- Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality
- Inventing America
- Modernism and Modernity
- Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820)
- Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
- Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832
- Enlightenment and its Discontents
- Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity
- Scannánaiocht na Gaeilge: Studies in Irish Film
- America's Aftermaths
- Cearta an Duine agus Nualitríocht na Gaeilge
- Gairmeacha le Gaeilge (work placement)
- Writing Contemporary Ireland: Elegy, Epistle, Ekphrasis
- The Bible and Modern Fiction
- Poetry from Britain and Irelan
- Gaeilge 3
- Women's Writing 1680-1830
- Shakespeare on Screen
- Speech Worlds: Phonological Acquisition, Variation and Disorder
- Televising the Victorians
- Language and Literature in the Gaelic World
- Language in the Media
- Double Dissertation English Literature
- Double Dissertation English Language
- Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England
- Contemporary Indian Literature in English
- Special Topic in Creative Writing
- Special Topic in Irish Writing
- Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space
- Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities
- The Structure of English
- Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge
- Representing the Working Class
- Writing New York, 1880-1940
- Contemporary Poetry
- Irish Gothic
- Writing Africa: The Colonial Past to Colonial Present
- Work-based Learning
- Restoration to Regency in Contemporary Fiction
- Love Across the Divide: Northern Irish Literature and Culture 1968-Present
- Scéal na hImirce -The Migrant Experience
- Gairmeacha le Gaeilge
- An Béal Beo
- An Miontráchtas: Dissertation
- Shakespeare's History Plays: Then and Now