One of my favourite things about studying Single Honours English was that there was that in our small class of 15 we had our own modules, usually one per semester, just for us. These modules were given by different lecturers in the English Department and involved in-depth study into different types of literature usually more specific than the general English modules in first and second year. As a class we bonded out of lectures through trips to the restaurant, the student bar or just grabbing coffee. This culminated in Second Year when we went on a class trip to Holland for a weekend. We went out to galleries, checked out Anne Frank's (surprisingly spacious) house and generally partied for most of the time!
Some of our class on the trip to Holland!
Even now, three years later we’re all still pretty close. Some of my class have gone on to take Masters courses at home and abroad, four of them are journalists, another is a playwright who took her play to the Edinburgh Fringe last summer.Throughout her time in UCD Lisa was involved with the Drama Society (Dramsoc) whether she was directing, acting or doing backstage work, and now she is working part time in the Abbey Theatre as well as directing and writing screenplays.
Another girl is now the editor of an English-language magazine in Berlin, who fell in love with the city on her Erasmus year studying there. Some of the articles she's written are here. Whenever we do meet up it's still satisfying that almost all of us are pursuing our own interests in jobs or research still very related to our degree, definitely showing that the pessimistic things you hear about Arts graduates all becoming either teachers or unemployed are all bull!
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