Irish Censorship Board

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Reception Muriel Spark
Penelope Gilliatt thought the evil in Seton had been to some extent absorbed by Bridges.
Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009.
237
Evelyn Waugh pronounced this the cleverest and most elegant of all Mrs Spark's clever and elegant books.
Spark, Muriel. Robinson. Penguin, 1964.
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Reception Kate O'Brien
This novel fell foul of the Irish Censorship Board , which banned it as immoral because of its portrayal of a young Irish girl choosing of her own will (rather than being led astray) to...
Reception Kate O'Brien
The Land of Spices too was declared immoral by the Irish Censorship Board ; this time for a single phrase applied to Helen's father's homosexual relationship: in the embrace of love.
qtd. in
Reynolds, Lorna. Kate O’Brien: A Literary Portrait. Colin Smythe; Barnes and Noble, 1987.
75
O'Brien fought back...
Residence Julia O'Faolain
JOF remarks that her parents could well have stayed in England or the US, but took the more difficult decision to return to Ireland.
O’Faolain, Julia. Trespassers, A Memoir. Faber and Faber, 2014.
1
Her father had been anxious about coming back, since his...

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