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EMIR10020

Academic Year 2024/2025

Introduction to Early Irish II (EMIR10020)

Subject:
Early Irish
College:
Arts & Humanities
School:
Irish, Celtic Stud & Folklore
Level:
1 (Introductory)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Assoc Professor Fangzhe Qiu
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

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.

About this Module

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.
Please note that you must NOT submit contents generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies as part of your assignment, assessment or thesis submitted to this module or degree..

This falls in line with the ‘RED’ category of the College of A&H’s ‘AI traffic light’ system. Further information on the traffic light system is on the College AI Futures website.
Apart from contents directly generated by AI, uses of AI technologies in the following fields are also not permitted in any assignment, assessment or thesis:

Correction: Correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
Translation: Translate passages of text
Citation: Arrange references according to a particular citation style
Improvement: Improve the style and tone of writing
Feedback: Get feedback on drafts
Unpacking: Unpack an assignment prompt to better understand it
Brainstorming: Brainstorm a topic to gather a range of approaches
Planning: Generate a research plan
Structuring: Devise a structure for a piece of writing based on an abstract, introduction, or general ideas
Revision: Revise a piece of writing

If you submit AI-generated content you may be in breach of the UCD Academic Integrity Policy.
If you are not sure whether your submission conforms to the school policy, please consult your module coordinator.

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 Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
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. Week 5 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No
25
No
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. Week 10 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No
25
No
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. Week 12, Week 14, Week 15 Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% No
50
No

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.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Thurs 15:00 - 15:50
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Tues 16:00 - 16:50