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Errol Flynn embodied swashbuckling masculinity in Hollywood of the 1930s yet his dissipation killed him at 50. His memoir was marketed as salacious but how rude could it really be?Merch: http://store.censored.ieSubscribe on patreon: https://www.patreon.com/censoredpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Baum was a bestselling author of the 1930s who attracted the ire of the Irish censors. Helene is a romance about a struggling university student with a serious feminist message. If you love Evil Literature, check out my merch: http://store.censored.ieSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/censoredpod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How could this delicious literary parody be described as indecent? Only the Irish censors saw something nasty in a comic take on DH Lawrence and Jane Austen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Joyce went way beyond smut when he wrote Ulysses, an epic modernist masterpiece. The censorship history of Ulysses is as mind boggling as the author’s bloody-minded determination to offend. In a bizarre twist, this filthy book was never banned in Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The scrutiny of the censor was confined to the English language. But work in Irish, the other language of the state, were also censored by editors, bureaucrats and catholic reactionaries. No language was allowed to explore scandalous ‘sex feelings’. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Outrage over banned books was rare but this scandal had it all: a persecuted artist, overbearing clerics and legal reform. The Dark (1965) was a powerful book that helped change the censorship system. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When The Dark was banned in 1965, John McGahern became the focus of a censorship controversy. But what about this coming-of-age novel irked the censors? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hall's queer text was at the centre of an English moral panic and censorship show trial. Why did the Irish censor prohibit a book that was effectively banned in Ireland anyway? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A censor called this book ‘unwholesome’ in parliament because it mentioned ‘sodomy’. But maybe O’Brien’s pointed criticism of nationalism was the real reason it was banned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An entertaining and elegant look at singledom in London that challenged censor's ideas on sex and conception. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.