English Literature

Offering extensive options in both English Literature and Creative Writing, this course helps you pursue your passion for the written word.

Pioneering research shapes our teaching. You will benefit from our extensive knowledge and expertise as you study a range of novels, poetry and plays. Exploration of critical theory and current literary debates will introduce you to how issues such as gender, ecology and psychoanalysis inform the way we read texts. A focus on Irish writing in English gives the course a distinctive identity, and the creative writing pathway offers you the opportunity to create under the guidance of published writers.

This course is the perfect route towards further study and research. Graduates have secured positions within the teaching profession, publishing, freelance journalism and creative writing, bookselling, librarianship, the media, public relations, archival work, marketing, advertising and administration.