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The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality. The Country Girls (1960) Edna O'Brien: Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual content.
The Censorship of Publications Board is a formally independent but government-appointed board established by the Censorship of Publications Act, 1929 to examine books and periodicals that are for sale in the Republic of Ireland. It is governed by the Censorship of Publications Acts of 1929, 1946 and 1967.
Freedom of speech by country. Internet censorship and surveillance by country. v. t. e. In Ireland, the state retains laws that allow for censorship, including specific laws covering films, advertisements, newspapers and magazines, as well as terrorism and pornography, among others. In the early years of the state, censorship was more widely ...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.
Committee on Evil Literature. The Committee on Evil Literature was a committee set up by the Irish Free State 's Department of Justice in 1926 to look into censorship of printed matter. After independence in 1922, the authorities of the Irish Free State came under increasing pressure to ban materials considered obscene or liable to corrupt ...
In 1958, the Irish Censorship of Publications Board banned the book Borstal Boy because of critiques of Irish republicanism, social attitudes and the Catholic Church. Areopagitica, by John Milton, was banned in the Kingdom of England for the philosophical defenses of the right to freedom of speech and expression.
This is a selected list of authors and works listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The Index was discontinued on June 14, 1966 by Pope Paul VI. [1] [2] A complete list of the authors and writings present in the subsequent editions of the index are listed in J. Martinez de Bujanda, Index Librorum Prohibitorum, 1600–1966, Geneva, 2002.
Book burning. List of book-burning incidents. Nazi book burnings. Burning of books and burying of scholars. Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England. Index Librorum Prohibitorum. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States.