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Why so many great Irish writers?

Denerick · 2010-07-13 13:34:17

We've produced a huge number of talented wordsmiths over the years. Our golden age was the Celtic twilight era, when writers like Yeats, Bernard Shaw, Joyce and Synge were in their prime. Is there anything particularly special about us? Its interesting to note that quite a few of our great writers hailed from the…

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#32 20-07-2010 9:52pm
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Ahh, no bother, it was my fault really!

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#33 23-07-2010 8:16pm
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Ireland's censorship was far more zealous and far-reaching than that of almost any other Western nation. It amounted to a veritable war against modern culture and ideas, and gave us the international reputation of being an insular, provincial, anti-intellectual backwater

That depends on the definition of "Western". !942 ( this high tide of Irish book censorship) was a fairly popular time for book banning, and indeed, burning in many countries that are now considered Western.

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#34 23-07-2010 8:19pm
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All of those should be unbanned ( although I assume that the law is either not invoked, or the books mostly out of print).

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#35 23-07-2010 8:43pm
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