Sophie O’Grady is a PhD Candidate in the Department of English at King’s College London. Her research is centred around the operation of state-sponsored literary censorship across the island of Ireland during the post-war-pre-Troubles period, with her thesis arguing the existence of a critically productive dynamic between state censorship and culminations of violence in mid-twentieth century Irish literature. Her work touches on topics of cultural nationalism and religious radicalism as key features of the sociopolitical climate underlying the moral safeguarding campaigns of the young Irish state; her previous experience in archival studies has largely informed her current research, which stands as the first piece of scholarship in the field to make such extensive use of relevant archival holdings. She completed her undergraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin (2024), where she was awarded a First Class Honours in English Studies. She is a recipient of the British Association of Irish Studies (BAIS) Postgraduate Bursary (2025) and her research is fully funded by a London Arts and Humanities (LAHP) studentship (2025-2027).