Eoin O’Dell

@cearta.bsky.social

Inefficient academic lawyer @tcddublin.bsky.social Trying to write about Free Speech. Also GDPR, IP, IT, Privacy, Private Law. Thinking about Bach, books, chess, coffee, movies, music, screenplays, sport, theatre, whiskey http://www.cearta.ie

2/2 I'd love to have more responses about that post and all of those in the expanding series of which it forms a part. In particular, I'd love to learn if there is an example of a writer who stopped writing after being banned. Thanks in advance.

In Scotland, w/a red kite pair circling overhead & calling their distinctive call. They're beautiful birds, a totally different sleek build compared to our chonky B52 buzzards nesting at our place in Ireland. Kite introduction in Scotland (they are EVERYWHERE) shows how well recovery can work

2/2 … who had to self-censor, who faced the cold climate of social censorship, who went into exile and were published abroad, or who stopped writing. Now, the call for help: are there obvious examples of these effects that I don’t mention? Thanks!

1/2 Call for help. On the chilling effect of the Irish censorship regime, in this post, I write about Irish writers who were not published in the first place, who edited texts to accommodate tremulous publishers, who could not write … www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...

Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.ie

the Irish for rights

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1/2 Call for help. On the chilling effect of the Irish censorship regime, in this post, I write about Irish writers who were not published in the first place, who edited texts to accommodate tremulous publishers, who could not write … www.cearta.ie/2026/06/inde...

Indecency, obscenity, immorality, vice, depravity, corruption: the chilling effect of the Censorship of Publications Acts – Part 2 (censor and chill) – Cearta.ie

the Irish for rights

cearta.ie