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Censorship in mid-20th century Ireland

Banned in Ireland in the mid-20th century were the following (and just as some kind of belated revenge, most of these links lead to places where the forbidden works can now be sampled):

• Works by international writers, including:
  • Gorky
  • Nabokov
  • Proust

  • Noel Coward
  • Andre Gide
  • Graham Greene
  • Dylan Thomas

  • Kingsley Amis
  • James Baldwin
  • Raymond Chandler
  • William Faulkner
  • Robert Graves
  • Joseph Heller
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Doris Lessing
  • Sinclair Lewis
  • Norman Mailer
  • Thomas Mann
  • Iris Murdoch
  • Philip Roth
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Georges Simenon
  • John Steinbeck
  • William Styron
  • John Updike
  • Tennessee Williams
  • Thomas Wolfe

• Works by earlier writers, including:
  • Apuleius
  • Boccaccio
  • Honore de Balzac

• Works by almost all Irish writers, including:
  • Beckett
  • Joyce

  • Brendan Behan
  • Austin Clarke
  • J.P. Donleavy
  • John B. Keane
  • Walter Macken
  • John McGahern
  • Brian Moore
  • Edna O'Brien
  • Kate O'Brien
  • Sean O'Casey
  • Frank O'Connor
  • Sean O'Faolain
  • Liam O'Flaherty

• Many periodicals and scientific works (basically, anything that attempted to treat human sexuality, reproduction or birth control in a scientific way):
  • Freud
  • Margaret Mead

• Political, religious, philosophical and social science writers:
  • Bertrand Russell
  • Orwell
  • Sartre
  • George Bernard Shaw
  • H.G. Wells
  • Aldous Huxley
  • Arthur Koestler
  • Muriel Spark

• There was also massive censorship of newspapers, magazines, movies, etc.

• Some writers placed on the Catholic Church's Index of banned books

As I say, it's a history lesson now, and if I were to link to everything that had been banned ever throughout all history, then no country would emerge with their dignity intact.