Jan 2020
IHS ban me
lost my poetic licence
wilde as joyce and shaw
<>
ps. IHS = Irish Haiku Society.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/the-irish-writers-banned-in-their-own-land-455179.html
Shaw and Beckett were part of a long list of Irish writers who were especially targeted; it included James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Liam O’Flaherty, Sean Ó Faoláin, Frank O’Connor, Francis Stuart, Austin Clarke, George Moore, Kate O’Brien, Maura Laverty, Walter Macken, Edna O’Brien, Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely, Brian Moore, and John McGahern, Ryan O'Leary has just been added to the list.
<>
They were ‘the best banned in the land’, as Brendan Behan joked after he joined the list in 1958 following the prohibition on Borstal Boy. But behind the jokes and ridicule, writers felt persecution, were denied a place in their country’s cultural life, and were in many cases denied a living here also.
lost my poetic licence
wilde as joyce and shaw
<>
ps. IHS = Irish Haiku Society.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsfilmtv/the-irish-writers-banned-in-their-own-land-455179.html
Shaw and Beckett were part of a long list of Irish writers who were especially targeted; it included James Joyce, Sean O’Casey, Liam O’Flaherty, Sean Ó Faoláin, Frank O’Connor, Francis Stuart, Austin Clarke, George Moore, Kate O’Brien, Maura Laverty, Walter Macken, Edna O’Brien, Brendan Behan, Benedict Kiely, Brian Moore, and John McGahern, Ryan O'Leary has just been added to the list.
<>
They were ‘the best banned in the land’, as Brendan Behan joked after he joined the list in 1958 following the prohibition on Borstal Boy. But behind the jokes and ridicule, writers felt persecution, were denied a place in their country’s cultural life, and were in many cases denied a living here also.
