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Course overview

This course is intended to provide graduates in related disciplines with a solid grounding in Old Irish language and literature.

Duration

The course lasts for the three terms of one academic year beginning in October and requires full-time study. Candidates are assessed by an examination consisting of two three-hour papers.

Application

Applications for admission must be made to the Dean of Graduate Studies by 30 June of the year in which admission is sought. Applications are normally accepted only from persons with a good honors degree in a cognate subject such as Modern Irish or another Celtic language, medieval languages, literature or history, archaeology. Students will be admitted every second year. (The next round of applications will be for 2005/6.)

Course Work

The course will consist of six contact hours per week, as follows:

1.1 Introduction to Old Irish (2 hours)


1.2 Tutorials in Old Irish (2 hours)


2. Old Irish literature, including readings in lyrical verse (1 hour)


3. Old Irish glosses and saga literature (1 hour)





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