FGM, mandatory reporting and the complexity of culture

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Neither friend nor foe? Irish neutrality in the Second World War [Book Review]

Reviewed works: Robert Brennan, Ireland Standing Firm: My Wartime Mission in Washington and Eamon de Valera – A Memoir, ed. Richard H. Rupp (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2002), 182 pp., $20.00 (pb), ISBN 1900621681. / John P. Duggan, Herr Hempel at the German Legation in Dublin, 1937–1945 (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 328 pp.,$45.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527464. / Mark Hull, Irish Secrets: German Espionage in Wartime Ireland, 1939–1945 (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 383 pp., $55.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527561. / MI5 and Ireland, 1939–1945: The Official History, ed. and introduced by Eunan O'Halpin (Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 130 pp.,$55.00 (hb), ISBN 0716527545

Silent screen: book review.

Book Review. Kevin Rockett, Irish film censorship: a cultural journey from silent cinema to internet pornography (Dublin, 2004) and Mary Corcoran and Mark O'Brien (eds), Political censorship and the democratic state: the Irish broadcasting ban (Dublin, 2005

Antipathy, paradox and disconnect in the Irish state’s legal relationship with the Irish language

Positioned within the context of ongoing debate on reform of the Official Languages Act 2003, this article critically examines the Irish state’s legal position regarding the Irish language. Revealing antipathy, paradox and disconnect, both in a historical and contemporary context, the article argues for a reconceptualised debate about the role of law in the protection and promotion of the Irish language. Notwithstanding a complex post-colonial language history and austerity grounded arguments that language rights and language legislative provisions are resource intensive, the article argues that the legal approach to the Irish language should be underpinned by a substantive and more purposive conception of equality. There is, in Ireland, an antipathy to view language from the perspective of substantive equality. This antipathy has, in turn, hindered the development of an appropriate institutional infrastructure and legacy within which core provisions of the Official Languages Act 2003 could, and can, be effectively fulfilled

'The best banned in the land': censorship and Irish writing since 1950

This article examines the censorship of Irish writing since 1950. It gives an historical overview of the evolution of literary censorship in twentieth-century Ireland, with particular reference to the operations of the Censorship of Publications Acts, 1929 and 1946. It includes a list of books by Irish authors that were banned since 1950; an account of the supplanting of the Catholic activists who had controlled the Censorship of Publications Board since its inception; the fundamental reforms introduced in 1967; and an account and analysis of the impact of censorship on Irish writing and Irish writers, and the variety of their responses