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Posted on December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 by Aoife

S8 E5 Primitives: Walter Macken ‘Quench the Moon’ (1948)

When Walter Macken dedicated his first novel to his Mammy, Agnes, he did not expect the censors to declare it ‘obscene’. How does a social-problem novel by a good Catholic offend the official arbiters of taste?

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