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Posted on August 13, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E9 Rapey Noir: Keene, ‘Sleep with the Devil’ (1954)

The censor hated Keene’s pulp noir, banning his work many times. This taut thriller was full of violence but it was also a morality tale.

Posted on August 5, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E8 Queer Ireland: Broderick, ‘The Pilgrimage’ (1961)

Is it a book about a promiscuous wife, a pilgrimage or queer life in 1960s Ireland? Banned for indecency and blasphemy, Broderick’s novel is a multi-layered text.

Pan Books, 1975 cover art
Posted on July 31, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E7 Bestial Behaviour: Endore, ‘The Werewolf of Paris’ (1933)

Endore combined violence and blasphemy in this classic of the werewolf genre. It’s impossible to know whether the radical politics or freaky sex most offended the censor.

Cover art of 1943 edition
Posted on July 22, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E6: Love, not Sex: Wallace, ‘The Chapman Report’ (1960)

America was horrified when the Kinsey report showed women were capable of sexual misbehaviour. Wallace’s book trashed Kinsey but it still too sexy for the Irish censor.

Pretty sexy cover….
Posted on July 15, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E5: Lesbionic Lit: Highsmith, ‘Carol’ (1952)

Is it a subversive lesbian romance or a psychological thriller? The hetronormative censor saw a dangerous text with a ‘general tendency to deprave’.

Bantam Press cover, 1953
Posted on July 3, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E4 Evil Contraception: Marie Stopes, ‘Married Love’ (1918)

Marie Stopes’ advocacy of contraception was radial in 1918 but it was 1980 before the Irish public could read her sex manual.

It’s a classic, with an introduction by a big-name historian
Posted on July 1, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E3 Pure filth: JP Donleavy, ‘The Ginger Man’ (1955)

Was it literature or porn? With sex on nearly every page, it wasn’t surprising this Irish novel was banned for decades. Sebastian Dangerfield is as dirty and unwashed as he is filthy minded.

Posted on June 25, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E2 Thrusting Ecstasy: Anais Nin, ‘A Spy in the House of Love’ (1954)

If you like florid descriptions of sex spiced with psychoanalysis, this is the book for you. Unfortunately, it is not my kind of book.

Posted on June 17, 2020December 13, 2020

S2 E1 A lot of ridin’: Keane, ‘Two Days in Aragon’ (1942)

A Big House novel where ordered tennis parties are subverted by fucking in the fields and bondage in the basement. You’d never think it from the cover, would you?

Posted on June 2, 2020January 8, 2021

S1 E10 Murdoch, ‘The Flight from the Enchanter’ (1956): Freaky Foreigners

Why is so hard to find sex in a book saturated with sex? Trigger-happy censors overestimated the filth in this rich and inventive novel.

Flight of the Enchanter by Iris Murdoch | Cover by Edward Bawden ...

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