back to article No more books on Ireland's banned book list

It’s the end of the world as we know it! Or at least, the end of book-banning craic in Ireland, which for some of the god-fearing citizens of that country possibly amounts to much the same thing. Our story, reported in full in the Saturday’s Irish Times, begins back in 1930 when the newly-formed Irish State, reeling in shock …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Happy

    Well, come on the, give us the line

    @In one case – that of Kate O’Brien’s Land of Spices (1941) – a single line of text appears to have sufficed for the work to receive a ban.

    it is ....

    1. Pollik

      Do I need a title when I am replying to a post?

      ...... 'She saw her father and Etienne, in the embrace of love'

      1. Steve X
        Thumb Up

        Isn't it encouraging

        that even in the land of philistine IT geeks, we can still get someone who can answer a question like that?

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Unhappy

          well, it's

          a bit less stimulating than i was hoping for. Where are the S&M lesbian nuns?

  2. jaduncan

    Well no.

    Nobody can afford the books to be offended by any more.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Or else

      Their too busy browsing porn on the net to have any time for literature.

      Unless a country is going to be really serious about this censorship thing, it becomes rather irrelevant.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Headmaster

        Correction

        They're, not their.

        I stand embarrassed.

  3. Demosthenese

    Am I the only one ...

    who sees this as a challenge?

  4. Naughtyhorse

    and so they are dragged kicking and screaming into the 17th century

    careful now

    Down with this sort of t'ing

    etc

    etc

    etc

    credulous dullards

  5. kjmax
    WTF?

    Hang on

    How much does it cost in taxpayers money to run a 5 person board for 12 years that's looked at an entire 1 book in that time? Average cost per book submitted for censoring (or ACBSC for short) could be a new Register standard measurement for wasteful government spending.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Happy

      More importantly...

      Do they have any vacancies?

      Please!

      And remember... I was here first.

  6. Christoph
    Boffin

    Is there a full list anywhere

    Does anyone have a full archive of this list of recommended titles? Purely for research purposes.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Such is the world we live in...

    I've never seen the point of banning anything.

    Making age limits!? okay fair enough! but banning!

    If your going to Ban the free expressions and ideas of our species then you may of well ban evolution (yes! yes! certain areas of the world)

    Anything you ban goes underground! then you really do get the sickos!

    IMO Really is better that everything be on the table, That way at least you cant say you didnt know what you were getting into!

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Thumb Up

    Says it all.

    "The decline of the church’s influence over the last 20 years has had a major impact."

    I think that you could reduce the entire article to that one sentence and you would pretty much sum up the gist of the thing.

    Really, I cannot for the life of me fathom why it is ever a good thing to bad any idea or any literature. If you don't want to read something, don't read it.

    1. Captain DaFt
      Big Brother

      Um, you don't understand the mindset of the censors

      In their opinion, they are of a superior intellect and high moral fibre, and can read this sort of thing with a detached air of bemusement. You* on the other hand, are weak willed, and low moralled, and thus must be saved from yourself by hiding this filth from you.

      *No, not You, per se, just anyone that's not Them.

  9. Pierre Castille
    Pint

    Censorship - That takes me back to when I was a child.

    In 1953 or perhaps '54 I live in a Devonshire village called Uffculme. On Tuesday nights my dad went to the pub next door to watch a film, and then on the next evening I would go down to the village hall, pay my 4d - ( just over 2p in modern currency) to watch the film.

    Except one Wednesday my father told me that the village watch committee (O.K. all the men in the pub) has decided that the film was unsuitable. - Then he went to the pub to watch it again.

    It's the old joke isn't it.

    Chairman of the watch committee (local censorship committee), "Well gentlemen, shall we watch it one more time before we ban it?"

    Any suggestions as the the banned film? ;-)

    1. Steve X
      Headmaster

      <pedant>

      4d is 1.67p, or just /under/ 2p </pedant>

      > Any suggestions as the the banned film?

      From Here To Eternity ?

  10. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge

    Age limits aren't enough

    ooFie - do you understand the amount of damage that has been caused by Ivor Horton's beginning C++ ? What age limit would you set on "Introducing sharepoint for pointy haired bosses"?

    Sometimes this sick material has to be banned for the good of society

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I hear that Ireland's Treasury balance sheet

    ....is widely available and commonly thought of as obscene.

  12. Anna Logg

    @Pierre

    The Wild One?

  13. alien anthropologist
    Troll

    The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.

    Irish? Who cares!

    The last good Irish was William Wallace.

    And he was not even Irish.

  14. Winkypop Silver badge
    Joke

    God is not mocked!

    At least not in Ireland, and certainly not in print !!!!

  15. Derek Williams

    I Found the list

    http://www.inis.gov.ie/en/JELR/Register%20of%20Prohibited%20Publications%202009.pdf/Files/Register%20of%20Prohibited%20Publications%202009.pdf it's in PDF though

  16. Graham Marsden
    Boffin

    "unlikely titles...

    "...such as Startling Detective or True Detective Mysteries."

    Err, aren't those the ones whose covers would feature full colour drawings of busty young ladies with loose blouses or ripped skirts being bound up or attacked or fleeing from assailants along with lurid stories of vice and drugs and general depravity?

    Nope, nothing for the prudes to get upset about there...!

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