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Posted on February 25, 2021

S4 E8 The McGahern Affair Part 1, the Book

When The Dark was banned in 1965, John McGahern became the focus of a censorship controversy. But what about this coming-of-age novel irked the censors?

Cover of the first edition – stark, much like the book itself
Posted on February 18, 2021

S4 E7 Sexual inversion: Hall ‘The Well of Loneliness’ (1928)

Hall’s queer text was at the centre of a moral panic and censorship show trial in England. Why did the Irish censor ban it, when an English prohibition meant Irish booksellers couldn’t source the book?

Great choice of art for the cover

Posted on January 21, 2021

S4 E3 Hex & Sex: Smith ‘The Passionate Witch’ (1942)

Only a truly paranoid censor would ban a book this innocuous. But even barely there smut can give convent-school girls ideas…

Cover of 1949 edition

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