100 Master's degrees in Arts, Design & Architecture in Ireland
Theatre Directing
The Theatre Directing programme of Trinity College Dublin is the first entirely practiced-based Masters programme of its kind in Ireland. It was introduced following extensive consultation with the Irish theatre community and is a direct response to the stated needs of the industry and of talented emerging artists.

Ethnomusicology
This Ethnomusicology course at University College Cork is a dynamic discipline, its key focuses include extended fieldwork-based approaches to understanding what people are doing and valuing when they express themselves musically.
Music and Media Technologies
In recognition of a shared interest in Information Technology and a growing awareness of its relevance for music, Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Music initiated the Music and Media Technologies programme of Trinity College Dublin in 1996.

Theatre and Performative Practices
The Theatre and Performative Practices course offered at University College Cork is ideal for those who have acquired theatre-related skills in previous years, for example in a youth or community theatre setting, and now wish to build on that experience and advance it to professional levels with the potential for a career in the professional theatre.
Arts and Engagement
The Arts and Engagement course at Munster Technological University will run part-time, one day a week over two years. Electives are timetabled in 2-day blocks once a month. Successful applicants who have completed the Certificate in Principles of Art Therapy can chose to be exempted from the year one elective.

Music and Cultural History
The Music and Cultural History course offered by University College Cork is a progressive alternative to conventional postgraduate courses in musicology, and it draws on the diverse expertise of internationally renowned scholars to combine the very best of traditional and contemporary scholarly practice.

Irish Traditional Music
This Irish Traditional Music degree delivered by the University College Cork provides a holistic practical and theoretical immersion in Irish Traditional Music practice and scholarship. The programme draws on wide-ranging internationally-recognised expertise to offer a progressively flexible postgraduate pathway in Irish Traditional Music.
Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media
Dive into the heart of cinematic creativity with American College Dublin's Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media MFA program. Here, at one of Ireland's premier educational institutions, aspiring composers and music producers converge to sculpt the soundscapes of tomorrow's films and media.

Sound and Music Computing
The Sound and Music Computing programme from Maynooth University caters for students who want to concentrate on technical aspects of the music and creative industries.

Music Performance - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Music Performance - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Ireland at Royal Irish Academy of Music offers successful students guaranteed progression* to a range of partner universities.

Music
This Music course offered at University College Cork is ideal, and unique in Ireland, for graduates in non-music subjects who want to qualify in music to degree level and beyond. Success in this course may be said to be the equivalent of acquiring a degree in music.
Performance
This MFA in Performance program at American College Dublin provides a student with an advanced introduction to the challenges and possibilities of organizing and presenting a public professional performance. Based around the development of a substantial live performance, the program also offers supervision on an agreed dissertation topic and two courses in management and marketing.

Writing
The MA in Writing at University of Galway is a one-year, full-time course. It covers a range of genres and forms, and it interacts with our other postgraduate offerings in Literature and Publishing, Drama and Theatre, and Film. The course thus builds on our strengths in the teaching of writing for page and stage, screen, journalism and other media.

Film Studies - Theory and Practice
The Film Studies - Theory and Practice programme at University of Galway is a pioneering programme that prepares students for a range of careers in film, screenwriting and media-related areas. Film today offers a broad mix of employment opportunities, including in academia, film and media industries, and in film/creative arts administration.

Composition and Creative Music Practice
This Composition and Creative Music Practice course from the University of Limerick is a unique one-year full-time or two-year part-time programme for composers, sound artists, improvisers and performers from all music traditions.

Design and Innovation
This Design and Innovation programme at the Atlantic Technological University is designed to develop key skills in innovation, design, management and leadership.

Drama and Theatre Studies
The Drama and Theatre Studies programme at University of Galway is a dynamic and practice-rich programme based at the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance. It blends critical study with hands-on theatre-making, allowing students to shape their learning across areas such as Irish drama, playwriting, directing, applied theatre, and performance theory.
Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices
Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices is offered by Trinity College Dublin. In the new M.Phil. in Digital Arts and Intermedia Practices, students critically engage with emergent digital technologies and infrastructures through artistic research and practice.
Urban and Building Conservation
The twenty-five years of the existence of the Urban and Building Conservation programme at the University College Dublin have seen a growing awareness of the cultural, social and economic importance of conserving the built heritage of buildings and urban areas.

Music Technology
The Music Technology course from Maynooth University is creativity-driven, with emphasis on musical aspects of computer programming and audio technology.