Graduate Studies

School of Humanities

The School of Humanities brings together the Departments of English, History, and Philosophy, the Centre for Irish Studies, the Huston School of Film and Digital Media, and specialist fields in Journalism and Old and Middle Irish. The School of Humanities has 60 full-time teaching and research staff, over 3,000 postgraduate and undergraduate students, including some 700 from overseas, and every year it is host also to various visiting scholars and creative writers and artists. Our School’s community is a vibrant one, thriving on intellectual exchange within and between traditional subject areas and newer fields of enquiry and practice.

The School has a well established reputation for excellence in certain broad fields of research and practice, including: medieval English and medieval Irish literature; medieval, early modern, and modern Irish and British history; cultural traditions of Ireland and the Irish diaspora; the history of European and New World colonization; nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and English literature and theatre; women's writing; women's history; Irish film, post-Kantian European philosophy, ethics (especially bioethics), political philosophy, history of Irish thought. The Centre of Bioeithical Research and Analysis is hosted by the Department of Philosophy.

The School prides itself on the fact that Irish is used extensively by its staff and students in ordinary day-to-day communication.

For further details on postgraduate degrees by research, please consult the websites of the School's seven consituent units. For further information on research in the School of Humanities click here.

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