Politics - Anti-censorship - The West - Ireland - Mid-20th century

Censorship in mid-20th century Ireland

It's really just a history lesson now, and perhaps it's hard to get worked up about it any more. But once these links would have been banned in Ireland.

Banned in Ireland in the mid-20th century were the following (and just as some kind of belated revenge, most of these links lead to places where the forbidden works can now be sampled):

Works by international writers, including:
Works by earlier writers, including:
Works by almost all Irish writers, including:
Many periodicals and scientific works (basically, anything that attempted to treat human sexuality, reproduction or birth control in a scientific way):
- Freud
- Margaret Mead
Political, religious, philosophical and social science writers:
There was also massive censorship of newspapers, magazines, movies, etc.
Some writers placed on the Catholic Church's Index of banned books

As I say, it's a history lesson now, and if I were to link to everything that had been banned ever throughout all history, then no country would emerge with their dignity intact.

Alfredo's reel of banned movie kisses and clips, in Cinema Paradiso (1988).

In the same spirit, a compilation of movie kisses.

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Politics - Anti-censorship - The West - Ireland - Mid-20th century

Censorship in mid-20th century Ireland

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