EMIR10020 Introduction to Early Irish II

Academic Year 2024/2025

This course builds on EMIR 10010, and uses the same method to extend the student's command of vocabulary, word-forms and sentence-structure. Each unit deals with new vocabulary and a new grammatical concept, which are practised by means of translation of increasingly complex sentences.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

1. deploy an extended vocabulary of the major word types
2. identify a wider range of the grammatical categories of Early Irish
3. translate more demanding sentences of adapted Early Irish
4. read and understand some authentic passages of Early Irish prose and poetry

Indicative Module Content:

Depending on the previous knowledge and progress we will cover further basic grammar of Old Irish including the remaining noun stem-classes and the subjunctive and preterite of the verbs.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

26
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The lecturer will explain the grammatical points and give students some in-class exercises to work on. Feedback will be given immediately.
Students will be given homework on the Workbook and they should submit them to the lecturer in the next class. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations
Learning Requirements:

EMIR10010 Introduction to Early Irish I or equivalent


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Pre-requisite:
EMIR10010 - Intro to Early Irish I


 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Exam (In-person): In-class 30 min closed-book test: 1. translating Old Irish sentences and parsing each word grammatically; 2. identify the dictionary headword of inflected forms. n/a Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

25
Exam (Open Book): 2-hour open-book exam in the form of a Brightspace quiz. Students are given 8 Old Irish sentences adapted from real Old Irish texts. n/a Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No

50

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Please acquire the following textbooks in advance:

Quin, E.G., Old-Irish Workbook, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1975 (with many reprint editions)
Thurneysen, Rudolf. A Grammar of Old Irish. Translated by D. A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1946.(with many reprint editions)
These can be borrowed from the library as well as bought online.

These books are also recommended:
Vries, Ranke de. A Student’s Companion to Old Irish Grammar: Second Revised Edition. Forgotten Scholar Press, 2020.
Stifter, David. Sengoidelc : Old Irish for Beginners. 1st ed. Syracuse N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 2006.