Tag: Censorship
Books Depicting Children Performing Sex Acts Removed from Cork City Libraries after Complaints
The Burkean can report today of the removal of the controversial book “Beyond Magenta” from Cork City Libraries after complaints by local parents. Written by the author Susan Kuklin, the book centres around the experiences of transgender children communicated through...
The Sunday Business Post’s Brown Scare
{This article is written in response to the Sunday Business Post piece “Ireland’s Alt Right: The people building an empire online” 16/6/19 detailing the apparent rise of an online far right presence in Ireland supported by foreign actors} If Ireland...
The Escalating War over Freedom of Speech on Campuses
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” - George Washington In February, 2016, American conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro spoke at the University of California, Berkeley to...