In An Eochair The Key one of Mairtin O Cadhains most Kafkaesque short stories and one of his longest J. a paperkeeper one of the more junior civil servant positions accidentally locks himself in his office when the key breaks in the lock. The story a mixture of satire farce black comedy and ultimately tragedy relates the efforts of J. and various other characters his wife civil service colleagues and superiors and others to extricate himself from his predicament. However all efforts to fr