Double Space 2023-2024

Editorial 
Double Space launches its third issue this summer 2024, showcasing the academic excellence of University College Cork’s English students. The essays and creative work included in this issue have been granted recognitions such as UCC’s own English Undergraduate Awards, the Patricia Coughlan Award and the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize. The theme for the 2024 issue is “Time”. We have grouped the essays in order of the most modern, dating back to the essay with the oldest context. We received essays from all sorts of times periods, including the future. Time is the one thing we always crave more of and is a fitting theme as we, the team of this year's issue, cannot get enough of these amazing essays! 
Our aim with this journal is to create a space to share and celebrate the award-winning work of our contributors with current and past students, as well as a wider audience. Moreover, we follow last year’s issue to enhance a wider recognition of the Arts with the publication of this journal, which we hope will become an integral part of the UCC Department of English. 
We would like to thank all the people who have helped us in the publication of this issue. To start, the contributors for their work that they have kindly allowed us to include in the journal. We would like to thank the English Department lecturers and professors for their tips and tricks for essay writing, and Maria Butler for mentoring the Double Space team in creating this journal. Finally, we would like to thank Dr Heather Laird and Dr Miranda Corcoran for their invaluable support and advice throughout the process. 
We hope you will enjoy reading Double Space as much as we have enjoyed creating it. 
– The Double Space Team