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Irish Studies

  • 21-12-2009 8:10pm
    #1
    Lockstep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭


    Am looking into doing a masters in Irish studies (especially on emigration) when I've gotten my arts degree (history and legal science)

    Wondering does anyone have any reccomendations on where to look into.
    Somewhere in the UK/Canada/Australia/US/NZ would be great given I'm interested in the Irish emigration aspect.

    SOmewhere with scholarships would be a great bonus as I'm fairly impoverished (87% in my EUropean Baccalaurate, running at a 1st at the moment in my studies, won a couple of awards such as the NUIG University Scholar award and the History Prize if it's at all relevent)


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  • #2
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Bradford and Liverpool run programmes from recollection. In the US Boston College is strong in the field, as is NYU. Some of the smaller schools run courses that are more generally titled but which would allow you to specialise - if you look at some recent publications and check out where the authors are teaching it's a quicker way to figure out what the research areas of schools are.


  • #3
    goofygirl
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    I just got a full scholarship - fees and maintenance - to do my PhD in Irish Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, NZ. http://www.otago.ac.nz/irish_studies/

    Otherwise in the States check the University of Notre Dame.


  • #4
    Lockstep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Thanks for the replies.

    I'm seriously looking at Queens as I like the look of the program there. Is there an obligatory amount of literature you have to do? (Big on Irish language, history and politics but not the literature)

    States might be a nice one if I ever decide to do a PHD.


  • #5
    pow wow
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    I wouldn't think so, QUB are phenomenally flexible about what modules you can take and still qualify on your degree pathway. If you look at the course page the only requirement is the methods course, so you could then diverge into the specific areas that interest you.

    http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/IrishStudiesGateway/ProspectiveStudents/MADiplomaIrishStudies/CourseModules/


  • #6
    Lockstep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,031 ✭✭✭Lockstep


    Thanks Pow Wow. Great help there.

    So far it looks exactly what I'm looking for.


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  • #7
    goofygirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 259 ✭✭goofygirl


    I also did the M Litt in Irish-Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen (also full scholarship) so PM me if you want any more details on anything :)


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