UCD Library Collection Spotlight: BANNED Books
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Spotlight on banned books
For the month of November UCD Library turns its focus to books that have banned through the ages by various authorities, governments and civil movements. Increasingly, libraries across the globe are under pressure by different groups to ban certain books and, sadly, with some condonement from authorities. Let's take a look at some of them held in our collection.
A selection of banned books
Here is more information about the books we have selected from our collection and links to our catalogue. Feel free to browse and borrow from the display shelves located on Level 1 of the James Joyce Library.
Banned in Ireland
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Ulysses by James Joyce; Bob Joyce (Introduction by, Other); Emma Byrne (Illustrator)
Call Number: 823 IR JOYISBN: 9781847175908Publication Date: 2013-07-15 -
The Country Girls Trilogy by Edna O'Brien
Call Number: 823 IT OBRISBN: 9780571352906Publication Date: 2019 -
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The Dark by John McGahern; Anna Teekell (Editor); Ellen Scheible (Editor); Frank Shovlin (Contribution by); Barry Houlihan (Contribution by); Enda Duffy (Contribution by); Kathleen Costello-Sullivan (Contribution by)
Call Number: 823 IR MCGISBN: 9780815638612Publication Date: 2025-05-15 -
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Droll Stories by Honore de Balzac
Call Number: 843 BALISBN: 9780486826677Publication Date: 2019-01-16 -
Books
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1] by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
Call Number: 365.450947 SOLISBN: 9780061253713Publication Date: 2007-08-07 -
The Complete MAUS by Art Spiegelman
Call Number: 741.5 SPIISBN: 9780141014081Publication Date: 2003-10-02 -
Leaves of Grass by Walt. Whitman
Call Number: 811 WHIISBN: 9780393974966Publication Date: 2002-03-07 -
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: 813 ATWISBN: 9780385721677Publication Date: 2004-03-30 -
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: 823 RUSISBN: 9780812976717Publication Date: 2008-03-11 -
The Diary of A Young Girl by Anne Frank
Call Number: 940.53 FRAISBN: 0670874817Publication Date: 1997 -
The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi; Anjali Singh (Translator)
Call Number: 955.054092 SATISBN: 9780593701058Publication Date: 2023-08-08 -
Azadi : Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
Call Number: ebook - access onlineISBN: 9781642593808Publication Date: 2020 -
The Land of Spices by Kate O'Brien
Call Number: 823 IR OBRISBN: 9781844083169Publication Date: 2006-05-04 -
Clandestine in Chile
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Asa Zatz (Translator)
Call Number: 791.430233 LIT/GISBN: 0805003223Publication Date: 1987-06-01
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