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A Celluloid Nasty: Peeping Tom (1960) Aoife Bhreatnach
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A Celluloid Nasty: Peeping Tom (1960)

One of Martin Scorsese’s favourite films and guess what? We agree, it’s brilliant. Contemporary...

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Anti-natal: Rosemary's Baby (1968) Aoife Bhreatnach
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Anti-natal: Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A horror fan (Lloyd Meadhbh) and not-a-horror fan (Aoife) agree that this unexpectedly feminist...

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The Full Gere: American Gigolo (1980) Aoife Bhreatnach
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The Full Gere: American Gigolo (1980)

Ties, suits and sex - Paul Schrader's exploration of consumerism and Richard Gere's hotness was...

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Video Nasties (Part Two) Aoife Bhreatnach
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Video Nasties (Part Two)

What’s the worst celluloid crime committed in The Evil Dead: excessive violence or Bruce...

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Video Nasties (Part One) Aoife Bhreatnach
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Video Nasties (Part One)

Lloyd Meadhbh rewinds the tape back to the 1980s, when a new film medium caused a new (ish) moral...

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The Rocky Road to Dublin (1967) Aoife Bhreatnach
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The Rocky Road to Dublin (1967)

How revolutionary was Ireland anyway? Journalist and director Peter Lennon asked how a nation...

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Censorship by Sharpie Aoife Bhreatnach
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Censorship by Sharpie

Did you know DIY censorship was practiced by those outside the film censor’s office. Even after...

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The Devils is not a film for everyone Aoife Bhreatnach
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The Devils is not a film for everyone

Ken Russell's The Devils is definitely a film for us. Satanism, orgies, exorcisms - what's not to...

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Are you trying to censor me, Mrs Robinson? Aoife Bhreatnach
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Are you trying to censor me, Mrs Robinson?

Banned, appealed, cut eleven times: The Graduate (1967) had a torrid time in Ireland. What...

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(Un) Willkommen to the Cabaret Aoife Bhreatnach
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(Un) Willkommen to the Cabaret

A film beloved by our hosts that proved too much for the Irish censor. Was it Liza Minnelli's (as...

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Ulster Says No, Absolutely Not Aoife Bhreatnach
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Ulster Says No, Absolutely Not

Lloyd Meadhbh explains Northern Ireland’s special censorship sauce to Aoife. There’s cross-border...

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Don't mention the war Aoife Bhreatnach
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Don't mention the war

War brings propaganda, and that means censorship. What happens if war is denied in favour of an...

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An Underground Film Scene Aoife Bhreatnach
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An Underground Film Scene

Aoife's working title was 'Wildcard' – we went on a journey through vice-ridden streets (and...

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Blasphemy! Aoife Bhreatnach
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Blasphemy!

How did the Irish censor feel about Biblical epics? And how could a convent have ‘a sex...

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It Girls: Clara Bow and Mae West Aoife Bhreatnach
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It Girls: Clara Bow and Mae West

We investigate ‘It’, a type of sex appeal that raised the temperatures of cinema goers and...

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Caught in the Act Aoife Bhreatnach
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Caught in the Act

Film censorship in Ireland is a hundred years old today. What were Irish cinema goers watching in...

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Sadism: Michael Arlen, ‘Hell! Said the Duchess’ (1934) Aoife Bhreatnach
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Sadism: Michael Arlen, ‘Hell! Said the Duchess’ (1934)

Why would Irish censors object to a satire of the English upper-classes? They probably wouldn’t...

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Gritty: Richard Wright 'Black Boy' (1945) Aoife Bhreatnach
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Gritty: Richard Wright 'Black Boy' (1945)

There’s lots of indecency in this memoir ­­– vile racism, horrific violence – but readers...

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Filthy Films: a Teaser Aoife Bhreatnach
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Filthy Films: a Teaser

What do you do when you’ve read a lot of smutty books? Watch dirty films, of course. This season...

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Libellous: what is indecency? Aoife Bhreatnach
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Libellous: what is indecency?

When Patrick Mulloy, author of Jackets Green, heard his book was banned he did something unusual...

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