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A student's attempt at letter-writing provides a unique view on university life in Dublin.

By Caoimhe Lavelle. A letter full of false traditions, thinly-veiled tyrannies and pigeons' eyelashes provides a unique insight into contemporary student life in Dublin.

Three stories about contemporary student life written by students. What is modern student life really like? Parties and love and lectures? Debts and daytime telly? Self-doubt and self-discovery? These stories, offering a snapshot of student life, illustrate it is all this and more. 

Caoimhe Lavelle is an undergraduate studying English Literature in Trinity College Dublin with a particular interest in short fiction, illustration, film and radio. Her written work has been published by a number of independent publications including Mama Grande Press and Totally Dublin, and she has also illustrated the cover of Trinity College's publication 'The Looking Glass'

Dear Alison by Caoimhe Lavelle.
Read by Ruth Negga.
Produced in Belfast by Michael Shannon.

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