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Posted on June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

S5 E6 Revolutionary: Hansen and Jensen ‘The Little Red Schoolbook’ (1969)

A guide to school life that was so radical the Pope declared it sacrilegious. For once, the Irish were not the only ones over-reacting to this tiny little book. It was 2014 before a full, uncensored version was published in Britain.

Cover art of the 2014 unexpurgated British edition
Posted on May 25, 2021

S5 E2 Phallic: Flynn, ‘My Wicked, Wicked Ways’ (1959)

Errol Flynn was extremely hot in his day but you might not see his beautiful face in the same way after reading his memoir. A scandalous take on Golden Age Hollywood, it was too salacious for the Irish market.

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 November 12, 2020November 22, 2020

S3 E9 Compulsive wanking: Roth ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’ (1969)

Why did the Irish censors ignore this spectacularly rude book? And why is a novel about a sex-obsessed Jewish man so important in the history of censorship in Australia?

Cover art from the first edition, by Paul Bacon

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