Old Irish IV - AAAV00744

• Title: Old Irish IV
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2026
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• Points: 2
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 2 / 2
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Radvan Markus, Ph.D.
• Class: Exchange - 09.2 General and Comparative Literature
• Pre-requisite : AAAV00741

Annotation

Irish is the oldest literary language in Europe north of the Alps. It can boast of a continuous written record from at least the eighth century, including glosses to Latin manuscripts, a sophisticated poetic tradition and, preserved in manuscripts since the twelfth century, also a large corpus of narrative literature of native provenance. As a continuation of Old Irish III, Old Irish IV focuses on more advanced features of Old Irish grammar with some reference to later developments. Samples of original texts will be translated and analyzed, with attention to the source manuscripts when possible. Course materials will be provided in electronic form.

Last update: UALKMARKR (08.09.2025)

Course completion requirements

1.     Regular attendance and active participation.   A maximum of 2 unexplained absences is allowed.

2.     Completion of regular homework (translations of short texts)

3.     An end-of term assignment (translation of simple sentences and a short text from Old Irish). Deadline: 8 February.

Last update: UALKMARKR (08.09.2025)

Literature

COURSE MATERIALS 

Quin, E.G. Old Irish Workbook. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1975.

Strachan, John. Old-Irish Paradigms and Selections from the Old Irish Glosses. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1929.

McCone, Kim. A First Old Irish Grammar and Reader. Maynooth: NUI Maynooth, 2005.

eDIL 2019: An Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language, based on the Contributions to a Dictionary of the Irish Language. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1913-1976. www.dil.ie.

 

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS and online sorces

Thurneysen, Rudolf. A Grammar of Old Irish. Trans. D.A. Binchy and Osborn Bergin (1946). Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1993.

Stifter, David. Sengoidelc: Old Irish for Beginners. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2006.

CELT. Corpus of Electronic Texts. http://www.ucc.ie/celt/

Irish Script on Screen. http://www.isos.dias.ie/english/index.html

Irish Sagas Online: https://iso.ucc.ie/Irish-sagas-list.html

Léamh: https://léamh.org/

 

Last update: Znojemská Helena, Mgr., Ph.D. (16.06.2025)