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Double Space 2024 Issue
An Exploration of the Effect of Class on Queer Identity in Detransition, Baby and Stone Butch Blues
Emily McCullagh Highly Recommended The Patricia Coughlan Award Class affects queer identity, as class can dictate the extent of...
May 1, 202412 min read
"All Her Attackers" – Spectating, Skating, and Subjective Media in I, Tonya
Leah Mulcahy Highly Recommended The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize Breaking the fourth wall is a theatrical technique in which a fictional...
May 1, 202410 min read
A Female-Centric Counternarrative: Analysing Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women as a Post-Western
Mia Power Joint Winner The Patricia Coughlan Award Abstract In her 2016 film Certain Women, Kelly Reichardt crafts a female-centric ...
May 1, 202413 min read
'The evil that men do': Representation of Patriarchy in Twin Peaks and Succession
Mia Tobin Power Winner The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize One question defines David Lynch and Mark Frost’s TV series Twin Peaks: who...
May 1, 202411 min read
The Collective, Subjective Perspectives of Paula Meehan's Poetry
Luke Condon Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year) Abstract Working-class literature, which has to an...
May 1, 202416 min read
'A Brand Stamped in Blood': Dostoevskian Guilt and Christ-like Redemption in Bernard MacLaverty's Cal
Luca Cavallo Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year) Abstract This essay delves into the complex...
May 1, 202411 min read
Medbh McGuckian and the Curious Case of Arranging Words
Fionn O’Mahony Highly Recommended The Patricia Coughlan Award Medbh McGuckian carefully selects segments of existing literature and...
May 1, 20247 min read
Evoking and Ejecting the Abject in Alien and Aliens
Ciara O’Connor Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year) Abstract By transgressing structural, physical,...
May 1, 202414 min read
Clearing Waters: North (1975) to Seeing Things (1991)
Janne Borgaes Highly Recommended The Louise Clancy Memorial Prize “it was marvellous / and actual, I said out loud, ‘a haven’” (“Glanmore...
May 1, 202415 min read
Ventriloquising Venus: Representing the Feminine in Seamus Heaney's North
Hannah Fitzgerald Joint Winner The Patricia Coughlan Award Published during the most intense phase of the Troubles, Seamus Heaney’s...
May 1, 202411 min read
'What's the going price for a stay-in-the-kitchen wife with big boobs and no demands?': Dehumanisation, Performance and Second-Wave Feminism in The Stepford Wives and 'The Girl Who Was Plugged In'
Kelly Meaney Winner Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year) Also Highly Commended in the Global Undergraduate Awards...
May 1, 202414 min read
The Mythical Method in T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
Janne Borgaes Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year) Abstract T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land constructs a...
May 1, 202411 min read
Lady Mary as a Dandiacal Figure
Vinca Albert Hernàndez Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year) Abstract The purpose of this essay is to...
May 1, 202412 min read
The Containment of Female Rebellion in Renaissance Drama
Anna Fitzgerald Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year) Abstract I decided to explore the topic of...
May 1, 202414 min read
Epicoene: Artificial Womanhood and Natural Manhood
Sydney Marhefsky Winner Department of English Undergraduate Awards (2nd Year) Abstract An analysis of gender in Ben Jonson's...
May 1, 202411 min read
An Exploration of Female Sovereignty and Genre Containment in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Anna Fitzgerald Highly Recommended Department of English Undergraduate Awards (3rd Year) In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales,...
May 1, 202420 min read
'Their Defiance Lives On': Women's Revenge in Old Norse Poetry
Aoife O’Sullivan Highly Commended in the Global Undergraduate Awards David Clark states that vengeance “is of central importance to the...
May 1, 202410 min read
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