Feed excerpt — reported by The Guardian
Censored books spanning 1926-96 contained themes ‘likely to corrupt or deprave’, or references to contraception or violenceFor almost a century, an Irish government building in the heart of Dublin has hosted a secret sanctum: the banned books room.The department of justice, on St Stephen’s Green, did not grant public access, because the shelves contained 12,000 books deemed indecent or obscene. Continue reading…
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