# Courses Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 14 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Date AscendingDate DescendingAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-A sort list grid\_view ## 14 results ### Spring, 2022 [### CELTIC 187. Literature of the Dispossessed: Gaelic Ireland, c.1600-1900 ](/class/celtic-187-literature-dispossessed-gaelic-ireland-c1600-1900) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2022 An introduction to Irish Gaelic poetry and prose of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, this course explores poets’ preoccupations and creative impulses in a time of regular conflict and drastic sociopolitical change. Critical issues we consider include, but are not... [### IRISH 208: Readings in Early Modern Irish ](/class/irish-208-readings-early-modern-irish) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2022 Readings in selected texts. Recommended prep: Irish 160r or permission of the instructor. ### Spring, 2021 [### CELTIC 109. Finn: The Great Gaelic Hero ](/class/celtic-109-finn-great-gaelic-hero) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 This course explores the lengthy and wildly popular Irish and Scottish Gaelic tradition surrounding the hero, Finn mac Cumaill (a.k.a. 'Finn MacCool' or 'Fionn mac Cumhaill'). Finn is variously portrayed as a hunter-warrior-seer and is the leader of the intrepid fíana war... [### CELTIC 340: Celtic Languages and Literatures Proseminar ](/class/celtic-340-celtic-languages-and-literatures-proseminar) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2021 An introduction to Celtic studies and a review of the major critical approaches to the field. Required of candidates for the PhD in Celtic Languages and Literatures. Not open to undergraduates. ### Fall, 2021 [### CELTIC 188. Songs of the Highlander ](/class/celtic-188-songs-highlander) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2021 An introduction to Scottish Gaelic song-poetry of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, this course explores poets’ preoccupations and creative impulses in a time of regular conflict and drastic sociopolitical change. Critical issues to be considered include, but are not... [### CELTIC 240. Pursuing Diarmaid and Gráinne: Texts and Contexts ](/class/celtic-240-pursuing-diarmaid-and-grainne-texts-and-contexts) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2021 Traditions about the love triangle among the aging military leader Fionn mac Cumhaill, his younger subordinate Diarmaid Ua Duibhne, and Gráinne, the daughter of Irish high king Cormac mac Airt, date as far back as the tenth century in the written corpus of Gaelic literature... ### Fall, 2020 [### CELTIC 209. Ireland 1600-1800: Upheaval and Adaptation ](/class/celtic-209-ireland-1600-1800-upheaval-and-adaptation) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2020 The two centuries considered in this course witnessed some of the most dramatic and fateful changes in Irish history and, indeed, of the British Empire. The period opens in the midst of armed rebellion linking Gaelic Ireland with Catholic allies from continental Europe which... ### Spring, 2019 [### CELTIC 105. The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland ](/class/celtic-105-folklore-gaelic-ireland) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2019 An introduction to the traditional stories, lore, customs, and music of Gaelic Ireland. Since collecting began in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Ireland has amassed one of the most extensive collections of folklore in the world. Prominent tradition bearers and... [### IRISH 210. Readings in Modern Irish ](/class/irish-210-readings-modern-irish) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2019 Readings in selected texts. Recommended Prep: Irish 160r or permission of the instructor. ### Spring, 2018 [### SCTGALIC 131. Intermediate Scottish Gaelic ](/class/sctgalic-131-intermediate-scottish-gaelic) **Semester:** Spring | **Year offered:** 2018 A continuation of Scottish Gaelic 130, developing students' fluency in spoken and written Scottish Gaelic. Internet, audio and video resources complement the study of grammar and select prose texts. ### Fall, 2018 [### CELTIC 106. The Folklore of Gaelic Scotland ](/class/celtic-106-folklore-gaelic-scotland) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2018 An introduction to the traditional stories, lore, customs, and music of Gaelic Scotland and Nova Scotia. Scottish Gaelic folklore exploded onto the world stage in the 1760s with the publication of Macpherson’s 'Ossianic' epics, which he alleged to have translated from Gaelic... ### Fall, 2017 [### SCTGALIC 130. Introduction to Scottish Gaelic ](/class/sctgalic-130-introduction-scottish-gaelic) **Semester:** Fall | **Year offered:** 2017 An introduction to Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) as it is spoken and written today. This course surveys the grammar while also emphasizing practice in speaking the language. This class is highly participatory; students are encouraged to take part in a range of communicative... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")