This collection of interviews was edited for Article 19: International Centre on Censorship. A watchdog organization named for Article 19 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Ireland’s history of censorship, almost exclusively of its own making, is a familiar topic.
The author interviewed some of Ireland’s greatest writers for this book. The interviewees included Edna O’Brien, Ben Kiely and John Broderick.
There are articles about censorship in Ireland by W B Yeats and Frank O’Connor. These writers explain how censorship affected their lives and their writing.
This is a fascinating study of an Ireland still in the grip of the Censorship Board.