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Posted on February 12, 2021

S4 E6 Too critical: O’Brien ‘The Land of Spices’ (1941)

A censor told Seanad Éireann that this book was ‘unwholesome’ because of one sentence that mentioned ‘sodomy’. But I think he was fibbing. O’Brien questioned the validity of Irish nationalism in this book, a daring move that must have offended the censors.

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