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A rainy day in Cork today. Set me exploring in the older items at work at lunchtime. The main shot is from 1933 and from a book of newspaper clippings related to libraries and library books. Censorship was a big issue back then and for many years after that. Another clipping in the book from the 40s was a library committee report, the county librarian bemoaning the fact that many of the popular items, which had received favourable reviews in the English press, were in no way suitable for the general public.
The extras are from Letters by Samuel Derrick on his travels round England and Ireland, published in 1767. The first page expressing his amazement at ending up in Cork rather than Dublin and the second page his less than PC Trip Advisor review of the pub in Passage West where the 'fine fat hostess, lame and blind in one eye, being past her teens, and a widow, paid but little attention to her personal decorations'.