Double Space launches its second issue this summer 2023, showcasing the academic excellence of UCC's English students. The essays and creative work included in this issue have been granted recognitions such as UCC’s own English Undergraduate Awards and its official Global Undergraduate counterpart, as well as the Patricia Coughlan Award, the Louise Clancy Memorial Prize, and the Eoin Murray Memorial Prize. We have grouped the articles according to the award they won or were highly recommended for. As well as academic essays, we have also included “Flying Kites,” a short story by Aoife E Osborne, winner of the Eoin Murray Memorial Prize for creative writing, in order to showcase UCC’s creative excellence as well as academic.

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Our aim with this journal is to create a space to share the award-winning work of our contributors with current and past students, as well as a wider audience. Moreover, we follow last year’s hope 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.

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We would like to thank all the people who have helped us in the publication of this issue. To start, the contributors for their first-class work that they have kindly allowed us to include in the journal. We thoroughly enjoyed reading and editing each and every essay. Then, Maria Butler and Maria Manning, editors of the UCC Aigne Journal, for the skills they taught us in their fantastic editorial workshops. Finally, we would like to thank our staff editors, Dr Heather Laird and Dr Miranda Corcoran, for their invaluable support and advice throughout the process.

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We hope you will enjoy reading Double Space as much as we have enjoyed creating it.

– The Double Space Team