Graduate Studies

Master of Arts in Irish and Irish-American Studies

The M.A. in Irish and Irish-American Studies offers students a broad interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes new approaches to the field of Irish Studies modeled on the best methods of contemporary Humanities and Social Science scholarship.  Courses taught by Glucksman Ireland House faculty in History, Literature, Music, and Cultural Studies investigate the Irish experience in and outside of Ireland.  The many archives and the vibrant Irish community of New York City offer unparalleled opportunities for graduate study.

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Scholarships

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Study Abroad Option

The M.A. degree can be completed in three semesters at the NYU Washington Square campus, or in one calendar year with full-time summer study in New York and in Dublin.  Watch the NYU in Dublin video:

Many of our students publish their scholarship.

Recent academic publications by MA alumni include:

Maureen Dunphy-Brady (MA 2017) “Rose of Tralee: Roots Planted in New York," New York Irish History, Vol. 33 (2019), pp. 19-30.

https://nyirishhistory.us/article/rose-of-tralee-roots-planted-in-new-york/

J. Ruby Harris-Gavin (MA 2019). “Ireland’s Forest Fallacy.” Éire-Ireland Vol. 55.3&4 (Winter 2020), 150-172.

https://doi-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/10.1353/eir.2020.0020

Caroline Heafey (MA 2016). “Introduction” to a reissue of Dorothy Macardle’s 1946 novel Dark Enchantment. Dublin: Tramp Press, 2017.

https://tramppress.com/product/available-now-for-pre-order-dark-enchantment/

Erin Janosik (MA 2017): “The Short Stories of Fitz-James O’Brien” in Clive Bloom, ed. The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic. New York: Palgrave, 2021: 217-233.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-40866-4_13

Ted Smyth (MA 2017). “Irish American Organizations and the Northern Ireland Conflict in the 1980s: Heightened Political Agency and Ethnic Vitality,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Vol. 39, No. 2 (Winter 2020), pp. 36-61.

https://doi-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/10.5406/jamerethnhist.39.2.0036

Daphne Dyer Wolf (MA 2011) “Voices from the Moving Bog: Ireland and Natural Disaster, 1896-1904.” Éire-Ireland  Vol.55.3&4 (Winter 2020), 44-74.

https://doi-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/10.1353/eir.2020.0027