Departments of Irish in Irish Universities

pog it

Just wondering what the reputations of the various universities are like with regards Irish language teaching and research, etc. UCD, UCC, Queen's, UCG, Maynooth, Trinity, etc.

Do any of them have a better name than the others? So if you were choosing one to do a degree/postgrad in which one would you go for if you had the choice and wanted to get the best professors, etc. It's kind of insider information and I've never studied Irish at university before so never heard any rumours, etc.

dambarude

I'd like to know the answer to this myself.

Also, there's an Irish Department in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Just thought I'd get that in there!

Enkidu

I'm not sure about Modern Irish, but Trinity has Damian MacManus a very well respected researcher in Primitive and Old Irish.

Maynooth however had Kim McCone, considered one of the leading world experts in Old Irish and now has David Stifter, who wrote probably the best textbook on Old Irish (I'd consider it the best text book I've ever read about any language), who is currently one of the top people for Old Irish research.

For Modern Irish, all I can say is that Trinity and Maynooth are definitely staffed by either native speakers or learners so good as to be indistinguishable.

pog it

dambarude wrote: »

I'd like to know the answer to this myself.

Also, there's an Irish Department in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Just thought I'd get that in there!

Thanks! I'd forgotten about there actually. UL also have a Law through Irish course with some really interesting modules.

pog it

Enkidu wrote: »

I'm not sure about Modern Irish, but Trinity has Damian MacManus a very well respected researcher in Primitive and Old Irish.

Maynooth however had Kim McCone, considered one of the leading world experts in Old Irish and now has David Stifter, who wrote probably the best textbook on Old Irish (I'd consider it the best text book I've ever read about any language), who is currently one of the top people for Old Irish research.

For Modern Irish, all I can say is that Trinity and Maynooth are definitely staffed by either native speakers or learners so good as to be indistinguishable.

Thanks Endiku, well you've sold me on Trinity, as least as far as Old Irish goes! When I was at UCD I took some of the undergrad classes in Old Irish, this is before I'd gone back to modern Irish, and I ended up dropping it because of time constraints ( I was doing a different postgrad at the time).

deise go deo

pog it wrote: »

Thanks! I'd forgotten about there actually. UL also have a Law through Irish course with some really interesting modules.

I think that might be UCC your thinking of, UL does not do a Law and Irish course, UL has 'Gaeilge agus na Meáin Úra' (Irish and new Media)

http://www.ul.ie/courses/Gaeilge.shtml

There are also a few courses that you can take Irish as a part of, PE and Irish etc

pog it

deise go deo wrote: »

I think that might be UCC your thinking of, UL does not do a Law and Irish course, UL has 'Gaeilge agus na Meáin Úra' (Irish and new Media)

http://www.ul.ie/courses/Gaeilge.shtml

There are also a few courses that you can take Irish as a part of, PE and Irish etc

It was definitely UL cause I was in touch with the Department there and one of the lecturers. Maybe it was a case of Irish modules in addition to the law course but they offer some interesting modules on dialect, etc.

pauffin

Does anyone knows what kind of reputation UL has for irish? I'm thinking of studying it there as part of their applied languages...

Maidhfinden

I'm thinking about Irish at Queen's, anybody know anything about their reputation/Irish society, etc.?

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