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Pure filth! Ireland’s banned films – and why the censor didn’t want you to see them

Pure filth! Ireland’s banned films – and why the censor didn’t want you to see them

A generation of Irish cinemagoers has grown up with no memory of the bad old days when theocratic censors kept comically unthreatening material from the nation’s supposedly fragile eyes. Films banned included such unmitigated filth as Casablanca,... Read more.

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