Swansea University, MA, Modern Celtic Studies

Students take 3 core modules during part 1, and 3 elective modules. Part 1 core modules: Inventing traditions: the modern celtic experience; study and research skills in modern celtic studies; research folder; part 1 elective modules: altering images of the Welsh industrial town: Swansea, 1780-1880; popular politics and protest in Wales, 1780-1850; sport and identity in Britain's 'celtic Fringe'; celtic borders, celtic frontiers; empire and enlightenment: Scottish society and the making of modern Britain; from Vesuvius to Snowdon: the evolution of travel, curiosity and aesthetics; Ireland after the famine, 1850-1925; Swansea and the sea; devolution in comparative perspective; writing Northern Ireland since 1968; Irish poetry of the mid-century; Welsh identities: literature and nationhood; ‘American Wales’: writing the transatlantic; women writing modern Wales; Dylan Thomas and the idea of Welsh writing in English; locating Wales: comparative perspectives; Welsh / English literary translation; English / Welsh literary translation; Llenyddiaeth yr Ugeinfed Ganrif (20th-century literature); Beirniadaeth Lenyddol (literary criticism); Barddoniaeth yr Oesoedd Canol (poetry of the middle ages); Ryddiaith a Diwylliant yr Oesoedd Canol (prose and culture of the middle ages); medieval Welsh literature (in translation).