Irish Writers in the Civil Service

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Irish Writers in the Civil Service

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 256 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781836244929

Full Description

Tracing the evolution of the figure of the writer-cum-bureaucrat from the Victorian Irish Civil Service through to the present day, this volume examines the scenes of literary art that developed behind counters and desks in bureaucratic Dublin and Belfast, as well as the international contexts in which Irish writers found administrative work in the diplomatic sphere. Advancing our sense of the shape and dynamics of these environments, the volume maps out literary networks spanning both local and central government institutions, thus shedding new light on the phenomenon of the literariness of Irish officialdom.

The volume shows that Irish writers in bureaucratic institutions drew extensively upon their work-life experiences in their writing, frequently emulating or critiquing bureaucratic writing practices in their literary work. Whilst exploring the ways in which employment in state bureaucracies facilitated literary writing, the volume also articulates the specific challenges facing Irish writer-officials whose freedom of expression was drastically curtailed by their position as state functionaries. Examining this complex literary scene of the state functionary across time presents a new window into the workings of the Irish state, as processed through the creative imagination of those who knew it best.

Contents

Introduction: Irish Writers in State Bureaucracy

Jonathan Foster and Elliott Mills

Bram Stoker in Dublin Castle

Paul Murray

'A colossal business run by amateurs': Susanne R. Day and the Cork Poor Law Board of Guardians

Maria Luddy

External Affairs: The Surrealist Statecraft of Denis Devlin's Dream Journal

Greg Londe

Innovating from Within: Irish Writers as Radio Programming Staff in the Nascent Civil Service

Eileen Morgan-Zayachek

Out in the Bones of the World: Irish Women Poets and Public Space 1930-1945

Lucy Collins

Nightlessons: Finnegans Wake and Other Required Reading for Civil Servants

Joseph LaBine and Tobias W. Harris

'Splendour and Strong Arm, Vessel of the State': Ideological Interpellation in Brian O'Nolan's Irish Dystopias

Andrew V. McFeaters

'A civil servant who writes poetry?': Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Mid-Century Bureaucratic Modernity

Síobhra Aiken

'A Belfast "Archon Versifying in his Exile"': The Office Poetry of Norman Dugdale

Jonathan Foster and Christina McCambridge

Death Duties: The Office Aesthetic of Dennis O'Driscoll

John O'Donnell

'Working for the Government': The Poetry of Gerard Fanning in the Emerging Ireland of the 1970s

Gerald Dawe