Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Ulysses (1967)

Comments

  • #2
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    I think it was banned for the same reason as the book, I havent read or seen either, so Im not certain what the reason is.
    I think it was something to do with questions raised regarding religion, the sexual nature of Blooms thoughts and other such non-catholic ways of thinking.

    I saw the DVD the other day, a nicely timed push for the 100 years celebration... I liked the review on the front of it... something like 'a good attempt at the book'.....

    Flogen


  • #3
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Literary critic John Greenway observed, "To read it with ease, one should have a PhD in comparative languages and literature." Indeed, Joyce himself spoke some 15 languages fluently and his work abounds with multiple lingual puns. Caveat: unless you have at least majored in English Literature and taken a graduate course in James Joyce, you won't have the slightest idea what is going on here - nor will you care.

    (From the end of the IMDB review).

    What a bad review! You don't have to understand every single reference in the book to enjoy it!

    According to this page on RTÉ's website, the book was never banned in Ireland:
    It was banned in the United States and Britain for some years but by 1936 was freely available in both countries. Curiously, it was never banned in Ireland.


  • #4
    joe_chicken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,287 ✭✭✭joe_chicken


    yeah, but it was band pretty much everywhere else!


  • #5
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    I guess they thought books are less likely to corrupt than films.

    Not true though, I read some pretty hard-core porn books for uni!


  • #6
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Oh and has anyone seen that film Bloom (based on Ulysses again)? I'm not sure if it's out yet but I heard ads for it on the radio a while ago.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Exit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,267 ✭✭✭Exit


    Didn't see it myself, but it's been and gone as far as I know in the cinema.


Advertisement