Abstract
This essay examines the circumstances of the prohibition of Kate O'Brien's novel The Land of Spices in 1941. It focuses on demonstrating how banning the novel as indecent was a way for the Irish censors to remove a work from circulation that they found objectionable for its critique of the standards of Irish Catholicism and the direction of the Irish state. The essay shows how the official evaluations of the novel revealed not only certain sensitivities in the new state, but also the ambiguity of the concept of indecency, as it was embedded in the Censorship of Publications Act.
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