Modern Irish History (M.Phil. / P.Grad.Dip.)

The course comprises three main elements:

A number of research training modules focus on the range of approaches, technologies, and resources available to researchers in modern Irish history.

In addition, students take special subject modules in each term. Topics on offer change from year to year, but cover a range of specialised themes from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Some modules concentrate on key developments in Ireland’s history, while others examine Ireland’s relationship with the outside world, whether through emigration or through its place in the British Empire.

Finally, students write a dissertation of between 15,000-20,000 words on any area of modern Irish history based on primary sources and relevant scholarly writing.