A tour of the maze of committees that controlled who read what in Irish public libraries. Public libraries were one of the most important sources of reading material for ordinary people.
S7 E10 Morally healthy: censure in libraries
S7 E4 Burning the diabolical ‘News of the World’
The real truth about post-independence Ireland is that everyone was reading the British sleazy tabloid, the News of the World. Some people were determined to stop that.
S5 E8 All Cork: O’Faoláin ‘Bird Alone’ (1932)
When Seán O’Faoláin tried to do for Cork what Joyce had done for Dublin. He was disgusted when this love letter to his native city was banned and spent years agitating against censorship.
