John Kelleher

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75 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 25 Jul

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The Pat Kenny Show · Ireland's Last Film Censor · 25 Jul 2026 podcast

And it was interesting.

He was a witty chap.

I mean, he was a highly intelligent man.

And he certainly wasn't slow to kind of set out his stall.

I take the Ten Commandments as my code, he said.

And he saw one of the greatest dangers as not the, as he put it, the anglicization.

of Ireland, but the Los Angeles edition.

And he set out to take steps to stop that becoming a thing.

I'm not quite sure how many he cut, but he banned 1,700.

1,700 during his, I think it was 18 or 19 years in the post.

Oh, yes.

These were intelligent people.

They absolutely understood that.

And cinema was regarded as a very, very influential...

medium, if you like, at the time.

So they were very keen to make sure that there was nothing untoward appearing on screens.

There was still a very paternalistic attitude, though.

And of course, all of the nine censors have been men.

I think that sums it up fairly clearly.

He's not sort of on the fence about it, is he?

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