Double Space 2021-2022

Double Space - the Undergraduate Journal of the Department of English, UCC - was born out of a desire to showcase the academic excellence of UCC's English students. The essays and creative work that we feature are primarily from the 2020-2021 academic year, stemming from UCC’s own English Undergraduate Awards and its official Global Undergraduate counterpart. Some of the works featured have been granted the esteemed Patricia Coughlan Award and the Eoin Murray Memorial Prize.
We have chosen to group the essays according to their similar themes, and hope that this is communicated to the reader. These themes include Irish poetry, motherhood, cultural anxieties, and a general commentary on Gothic Literature. The excellent short story "Virtual Bodies" by Maeve McTaggart stands apart from the others thematically, which is symbolic of its status as the sole creative writing piece of the journal.