‘If it was just th'oul book …’
A history of the McGahern banning controversy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17692804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Val Nolan (0000-0003-0094-5955, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe – University of Galway, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-279 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Irish Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-0882 • E-ISSN: 1469-9303 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09670882.2011.592762 |
| OpenAlex | W2023750874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the banning of John McGahern's novel The Dark in the Irish Republic in 1965 and the subsequent controversy surrounding its author's dismissal from his teaching position in Dublin. The so-called McGahern Affair is shown to have provoked wide-ranging and vigorous debate about both the censorship legislation and the role of clerical authority in the Irish educational system. Contemporary journalism, reviews, parliamentary records, and letters-to-editors are used to construct the most detailed account available of this central event in the development of McGahern's reputation, while the involvement of figures such as Bishop John Charles McQuaid, journalist Peter Lennon, and Senator Owen Sheehy-Skeffington is contextualised against the social transformation of 1960s Ireland
Censorship · Dismissal · Irish · Journalism · Legislation · Media studies · Political science · Reputation · Sociology · The Republic · Theology · Classics · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2020 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |