About the Irish Department in Trinity College

Location

The School of Irish is located on campus in the Arts Building (rooms 4055-4063). It holds microfilm copies of the Irish Folklore Commission's Collection of Irish Folklore Manuscripts. The College's important collection of Irish manuscripts (College Library) is accessible to research students, while the National Library of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy (R.I.A.) both housing extensive collections of manuscripts, are a short walk away.

Degrees and Number of Students

Early and Modern Irish are taught as two separate subjects in the School. They may be taken together as a single honor course in 'Early and Modern Irish' (BA, 4 years, Courses) or combined individually with a number of other subjects as part of a 'Two Subject Moderatorship' (BA, 4 years). Research students may read for an M. Litt. (1-3 years) or a PhD (2-5 years) under the supervision of staff members. The Department also runs two taught post-graduate courses, the Diploma in Old Irish and the M.Phil. in Early Irish. The Diploma will run in 2011/12 and the M.Phil. will run in 2012/13..

At present (2010-2011) there are over 160 under-graduate students on books, 40 reading Early and Modern Irish, 55 reading Modern Irish in TSM and 4 reading Irish in Computer Science, linguistics and a language. There are more than 60 reading Irish Studies. In addition there are 40 one-year students from abroad.