Committee on Evil Literature
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title:
Committee on Evil Literature
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The Committee on Evil Literature was a committee set up by the Irish Free State's Department of Justice in 1926 to look into censorship of printed matter. After independence in 1922, the authorities of the Irish Free State came under increasing pressure to ban materials considered obscene or liable to corrupt public morals. In October 1925, the Minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, told Dáil Éireann that existing obscenity laws were sufficient and the government had no right to further interfer
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1926 Irish Censorship Enquiry
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Evil_Literature
date created:
2004-08-30T00:32:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T23:57:36Z
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