Irish life between 1930 and 1960 is normally presented as a sort of cultural wasteland. In a radical reexamination of the period, Brian Fallon challenges this stereotype and argues that Ireland’s cultural and artistic life was vigorous, continuous and fertile.
He argues that the effects of literary censorship, while onerous and vexatious, were greatly exaggerated and that they did not have a stultifying effect on the cultural vitality of the country