Does anyone do Modern Irish?

lilmissprincess

I'm in sixth year, interested in doing Irish in University and was wondering does anyone do this course, and if so, what is it like?

Thanks.

Corruptedmorals

No, but I do Irish Studies which has some classes merged with Modern Irish. You need to be really, really good at Irish. There's a language lab, a grammar class and a modern Irish literature class, which I took, I believe there's a seperate poetry class and possibly another grammar class. They fling tenses at you you've never heard of before, but that might be just Irish studies to be honest! Big emphasis on grammar, even in the Irish literature class. The assignments for the grammar classes are little translations, which is alright. The workload in general in minimal, and there's not a whole lot of drop-outs or people failing the year, in general people like it.

Lots of nights out in the Conradh and the Duke, it's a nice small department and the lecturers are great.

Ron DMC

Your course in First Year will look like the following:

IR 1021 Nualitríocht
This is split into two modules, poetry and a short-story type piece. Not at all difficult subject at all if you pay attention.

IR 1022 Pobal agus Teanga
This is a lovely course. Very interesting altogether. All to do with the history of the language. Think Stair na Gaeilge from the LC in more detail.

IR 1023 Dán Díreach
Never actually sat this myself, but what it is is a certain format of poetry from way back years ago. Some specific structure to it. Not really sure myself.

IR 1024 Ceapadóireacht
This is that translate bit that CorruptedMorals mentioned. Fairly easy course, and should give you a chance to pick up some nice phrases and stuff.

IR 1025-7 Teanglann
This course lets you choose between Connacht, Mumhan and Uladh, the three main canúintí. You'll get to watch videos, listen to tapes, record your own voice speaking and try to get your spoken Irish as close to your chosen canúint as possible. There's an element of note-taking but it's mostly practical. The best thing about this class is watching Ros na Rún.

In second year then, you get to do Gaidhlig na hAlban as well, which is a bit of fun.

PurpleFistMixer

Damn, if only TCD offered "TP and Modern Irish". The world is crying out for gaeilgeoir physicists, damnit!
(Irish isn't offered in BC by any chance is it?)

SligoBrewer

I'll hopefully be joining you there next year lilmiss. I'm a bit worried about my standard of Irish though.:(

tolosenc

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Damn, if only TCD offered "TP and Modern Irish". The world is crying out for gaeilgeoir physicists, damnit!
(Irish isn't offered in BC by any chance is it?)

Extra-curric evening courses?

Timans

Modern Irish? Does that even exist?

PurpleFistMixer

obl wrote: »

Extra-curric evening courses?

Clashes with VDP. : ( Gonna look into it more, though.

Timans wrote: »

Modern Irish? Does that even exist?

Yes.

tomissex

I do Modern Irish with Spanish and I love it! The Irish course in first year isn't that bad...Nualitríocht is just short stories,you don't do poetry til 2nd year now and Dán Díreach is tough but great.It's olden day Irish poetry based around numbers of syllables and stuff. No need to worry about your standard of Irish or anything cos everyone's a little dodgy at times.

SligoBrewer

tomissex wrote: »

I do Modern Irish with Spanish and I love it! The Irish course in first year isn't that bad...Nualitríocht is just short stories,you don't do poetry til 2nd year now and Dán Díreach is tough but great.It's olden day Irish poetry based around numbers of syllables and stuff. No need to worry about your standard of Irish or anything cos everyone's a little dodgy at times.

What did you get in LC irish as a matter of interest?

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Damn, if only TCD offered "TP and Modern Irish". The world is crying out for gaeilgeoir physicists, damnit!
(Irish isn't offered in BC by any chance is it?)

Thats my one problem

Irish or Science!

(Also if I choose an Nua Gaeilge, I have no interest in the other Arts subjects you can combine it with. I want An Nua Gaeilge and Psychology!)

PurpleFistMixer

Fad wrote: »

(Also if I choose an Nua Gaeilge, I have no interest in the other Arts subjects you can combine it with. I want An Nua Gaeilge and Psychology!)

I wanted Maths and Irish, but 'twasn't an option. The closest I got was Computer Science, Linguistics and Irish, which really doesn't have that much Maths at all. (Though, my interest in Irish is mostly spoken/grammar based, I'm not TOO interested in Literature.)

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

I wanted Maths and Irish, but 'twasn't an option. The closest I got was Computer Science, Linguistics and Irish, which really doesn't have that much Maths at all. (Though, my interest in Irish is mostly spoken/grammar based, I'm not TOO interested in Literature.)

My lack of honours maths excludes me from those options, and there's no alternative to Comp Sci Ling & Ir in UCD, so its either repeat or do without Irish

tomissex

SligoBrewer wrote: »

What did you get in LC irish as a matter of interest?

an A2 but I went to an all-Irish primary school so that kinda helped.

tolosenc

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Computer Science, Linguistics and Irish

You wanna take this one Ronny? :P Or shall I...

PurpleFistMixer

obl wrote: »

You wanna take this one Ronny? :P Or shall I...

What's wrong with it?

Fad

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

What's wrong with it?

I would also quite like to know!

tolosenc

Well, I do CSLF. Ronny did CSLI and failed. It's difficult. There's nothing wrong with it, per se. It's "different"...

Ron DMC

obl wrote: »

Well, I do CSLF. Ronny did CSLI and failed. It's difficult. There's nothing wrong with it, per se. It's "different"...

It's also a very small class size so there's essentially only about 4 or 5 people in your class, very easy to get distracted. It's a great course just takes a bit of effort to actually give it the attention it needs.

Not a huge amount of hours of lectures either, so a lot of it is up to you to do work in your own time (which obviously I found to be a problem).

To be honest, if it looks at all interesting to anyone, go for it. Definitely something you'll enjoy. Just be prepared to have to put in a little bit of effort.