Voidly · Verboten · Ireland
Banned and restricted books in Ireland
39 titles have been banned or restricted in Ireland, recorded across 39 dated, source-cited events, most often for sexual content.
Stated reasons
- Sexual content
- 27
- Immorality
- 26
- Obscenity
- 8
- Political content
- 2
- Religious / blasphemy
- 2
- Violence
- 1
- LGBTQ+ content
- 1
- Offensive language
- 1
By decade
1690s1
1920s3
1930s11
1940s5
1950s6
1960s6
1970s2
1980s3
1990s1
2010s1
Documented bans
All 39 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Raped Little Runaway2016
Bannedgovernment· Obscenity, Sexual contentsource → The Butcher Boy1992
Bannedgovernment· historical· Sexual content, Violencesource → How to Drive Your Man Wild in Bed1985
Bannedgovernment· Obscenity, Sexual contentsource → Abortion Internationally1983
Bannedgovernment· Immoralitysource → Abortion: Our Struggle for Control1983
Bannedgovernment· Immoralitysource → My Secret Garden1973
Bannedgovernment· historical· Sexual contentsource → Samuel Beckett: His Works and His Critics1972
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → Duffy1969
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Dark1965
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Barracks1964
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → Girls in Their Married Bliss1964
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Obscenity, Sexual contentsource → The Lonely Girl1962
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Obscenity, Sexual contentsource → The Country Girls1960
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Obscenity, Sexual contentsource → Borstal Boy1958
Bannedgovernment· historical· Political content, Sexual contentsource → The Ginger Man1956
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne1956
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → East of Eden1953
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → Droll Stories1953
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Catcher in the Rye1951
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Offensive language, Sexual contentsource → The Tailor and Ansty1942
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → Abortion: Right or Wrong?1942
Bannedgovernment· Immoralitysource → Dubliners1941
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Land of Spices1941
Bannedgovernment· historical· LGBTQ+ content, Sexual contentsource → Dutch Interior1940
Bannedgovernment· historical· Obscenitysource → I Knock at the Door1939
Bannedgovernment· historical· Obscenitysource → Honourable Estate1936
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → The Collected Stories of Seán O'Faoláin1935
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The Laws of Life1935
Bannedgovernment· historical· Sexual contentsource → The Martyr1933
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → Brave New World1932
Bannedgovernment· historical· Sexual contentsource → The Informer1932
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Political content, Sexual contentsource → Men of Good Will1932
Bannedgovernment· historical· Obscenitysource → The Bulpington of Blup1932
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → Marriage and Morals1931
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → Married Love1931
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immoralitysource → A Farewell to Arms1929
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → The House of Gold1929
Bannedgovernment· historical· Immorality, Sexual contentsource → Elmer Gantry1927
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemy, Sexual contentsource → Christianity not Mysterious1696
Bannedgovernment· historical· Religious / blasphemysource → Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.