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How influential was the Catholic Church in Irish censorship?

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  • #32
    goat2
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    Dragons Revenge wrote: »
    I'm just curious.
    it ran the country, made big bucks


  • #33
    phasers
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    El Weirdo wrote: »
    True dat.
    Holla


  • #34
    Stinicker
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    Well they managed to censor the rape and abuse of little children for decades, so I'd say they were pretty influential.


  • #35
    El Siglo
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    This is a good article on banned stuff in Ireland.
    Most of the leading writers of modern fiction from Britain, America, and continental Europe (English translations only)--Proust, Nabokov, Boll, Huxley, Zola, Mann, Greene, Malraux, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Hemingway, H. G. Wells, Dylan Thomas, to name a random selection...

    The list of banned Irish authors in the 1930s and 1940s reads like a 'Who's Who' of Irish literature. It includes James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, Liam O'Flaherty, Sean O Faolain, Frank O'Connor, Francis Stuart, Austin Clarke, George Moore, Kate O'Brien, Norah Hoult, Oliver St John Gogarty, Maura Laverty, and Walter Macken.

    Essentially, if it wasn't in line with the Catholic Church or more accurately prudish Victorian era decorum, it was banned.


  • #36
    CrazyRabbit
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    Edit : This comment has been removed at the request of the Catholic Church...


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  • #37
    Zangetsu
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    Years ago in the smaller towns around the country before a film was shown in the local cinema it would have to be watched and approved by the local priest. If he deemed it to be inappropriate in any way it wouldn't make it to the screen.

    The catholic church was a huge part of how Irish culture was formed over the years and its only now that the church has lost its grip over Irish people.

    AFAIK the old version of the IFCO (Irish Film Censor) was headed by a bishop.


  • #38
    rossie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,541 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    christianity has a huge role to play in stuff like censorship and prohibition in western nations not just ireland


  • #39
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    OP check out the Wikipedia article on Censorship in the Republic of Ireland.

    Why does a supposedly modern democratic country still have a censorship of publications board ?


  • #40
    seraphimvc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,358 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    very.but doesnt apply to wimmin walking in dublin to nightclub.


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