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Diarmaid Ferriter: We should not minimise the censoring of Lee Dunne Like John McGahan he refused to link sexuality to shame
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Lee Dunne: Almost all of his 1970s novels were banned in Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
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Irish author Lee Dunne, who died earlier this week, came to prominence after the publication of his book Goodbye to the Hill, published in 1965, an account of teenage sexual awakening in working class Dublin.
It caused a stir with its frank depiction of lust and a sexuality that seemed at odds with the idea of cowering obedience to Catholic stricture: “in the privacy of a cinema with only a thousand people in it they forget exactly what it was the priest has said and they remember only that they want to touch and be touched and to get as much out of it as they can”.