Jonathan Foster recently completed a PhD thesis at Stockholm University investigating representations of public administration in British fiction. He works mainly on literature and state bureaucracy. Elliott Mills is a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He focuses on Irish literature and modernism. He is completing a monograph on Flann O’Brien and twentieth-century media.

• Introduction: Irish Writers in State BureaucracyJonathan Foster and Elliott MillsBram Stoker in Dublin CastlePaul Murray‘A colossal business run by amateurs’: Susanne R. Day and the Cork Poor Law Board of GuardiansMaria LuddyExternal Affairs: The Surrealist Statecraft of Denis Devlin’s Dream JournalGreg LondeInnovating from Within: Irish Writers as Radio Programming Staff in the Nascent Civil ServiceEileen Morgan-ZayachekOut in the Bones of the World: Irish Women Poets and Public Space 1930–1945Lucy CollinsNightlessons: Finnegans Wake and Other Required Reading for Civil ServantsJoseph LaBine and Tobias W. Harris‘Splendour and Strong Arm, Vessel of the State’: Ideological Interpellation in Brian O’Nolan’s Irish DystopiasAndrew V. McFeaters‘A civil servant who writes poetry?’: Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Mid-Century Bureaucratic ModernitySíobhra Aiken‘Savagery and Fine Words’: Norman Dugdale and the Northern Ireland Civil ServiceJonathan Foster and Christina McCambridgeDeath Duties: The Office Aesthetic of Dennis O’DriscollJohn O’Donnell‘Working for the Government’: The Poetry of Gerard Fanning in the Emerging Ireland of the 1970sGerald Dawe

Jonathan Foster recently completed a PhD thesis at Stockholm University investigating representations of public administration in British fiction. He works mainly on literature and state bureaucracy. Elliott Mills is a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He focuses on Irish literature and modernism. He is completing a monograph on Flann O’Brien and twentieth-century media.

• Introduction: Irish Writers in State BureaucracyJonathan Foster and Elliott MillsBram Stoker in Dublin CastlePaul Murray‘A colossal business run by amateurs’: Susanne R. Day and the Cork Poor Law Board of GuardiansMaria LuddyExternal Affairs: The Surrealist Statecraft of Denis Devlin’s Dream JournalGreg LondeInnovating from Within: Irish Writers as Radio Programming Staff in the Nascent Civil ServiceEileen Morgan-ZayachekOut in the Bones of the World: Irish Women Poets and Public Space 1930–1945Lucy CollinsNightlessons: Finnegans Wake and Other Required Reading for Civil ServantsJoseph LaBine and Tobias W. Harris‘Splendour and Strong Arm, Vessel of the State’: Ideological Interpellation in Brian O’Nolan’s Irish DystopiasAndrew V. McFeaters‘A civil servant who writes poetry?’: Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Mid-Century Bureaucratic ModernitySíobhra Aiken‘Savagery and Fine Words’: Norman Dugdale and the Northern Ireland Civil ServiceJonathan Foster and Christina McCambridgeDeath Duties: The Office Aesthetic of Dennis O’DriscollJohn O’Donnell‘Working for the Government’: The Poetry of Gerard Fanning in the Emerging Ireland of the 1970sGerald Dawe

Jonathan Foster recently completed a PhD thesis at Stockholm University investigating representations of public administration in British fiction. He works mainly on literature and state bureaucracy. Elliott Mills is a Research Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He focuses on Irish literature and modernism. He is completing a monograph on Flann O’Brien and twentieth-century media.

• Introduction: Irish Writers in State BureaucracyJonathan Foster and Elliott MillsBram Stoker in Dublin CastlePaul Murray‘A colossal business run by amateurs’: Susanne R. Day and the Cork Poor Law Board of GuardiansMaria LuddyExternal Affairs: The Surrealist Statecraft of Denis Devlin’s Dream JournalGreg LondeInnovating from Within: Irish Writers as Radio Programming Staff in the Nascent Civil ServiceEileen Morgan-ZayachekOut in the Bones of the World: Irish Women Poets and Public Space 1930–1945Lucy CollinsNightlessons: Finnegans Wake and Other Required Reading for Civil ServantsJoseph LaBine and Tobias W. Harris‘Splendour and Strong Arm, Vessel of the State’: Ideological Interpellation in Brian O’Nolan’s Irish DystopiasAndrew V. McFeaters‘A civil servant who writes poetry?’: Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Mid-Century Bureaucratic ModernitySíobhra Aiken‘Savagery and Fine Words’: Norman Dugdale and the Northern Ireland Civil ServiceJonathan Foster and Christina McCambridgeDeath Duties: The Office Aesthetic of Dennis O’DriscollJohn O’Donnell‘Working for the Government’: The Poetry of Gerard Fanning in the Emerging Ireland of the 1970sGerald Dawe