Brian McIlroy

Censoring Irish nationalism : the British, Irish, and American suppression of Republican images in film and television, 1909-1995

This work analyzes how the censorship process has developed since 1909 in the United Kingdom and the United States and examines the portrayal of the Irish on film and in television.

Hollywood East? A Cautionary Tale of Irish Film Distribution in North America

“Why did Paramount say yes? Because nobody knows anything. And why did all the other studios say no? Because nobody knows anything. And why did Universal, the mightiest studio of all, pass on Star Wars, a decision that just may cost them, when all the sequels and spin-offs and toy money and book money and video-game money are totalled, over a billion dollars? Because nobody, nobody—not now, not ever—knows the least goddamn thing about what is or isn’t going to work at the box-office.” (William Goldman in Goldman 1983: 41)