Double Space launches its third issue this summer 2024, 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 essays in a reversed timeline; starting with the most modern essay and dating back to the essay with the oldest context. Time is this year's theme for Double Space as we received essays from all sorts of times periods, including the futuristic fictional time period of Alien. Time is the one thing we always crave more of and seems a fitting theme as we, the team of this year's issue, cannot get enough of these amazing essays!

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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 years' 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 would like to thank all of the lecturers and/or professors for their tips and tricks for writing an essay worth reading and all that they do for the English Department! Finally, we would like to thank our staff editors, and 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