As an innovative photojournalism publication with a left-of-centre worldview, Picture Post was hugely popular in Ireland but also has the distinction of being one of the most frequently banned periodicals in twentieth-century Ireland. Senior church figures and morality campaigners viewed its photojournalism as indecent and obscene and engaged in a sustained decades-long battle to ban the publication. Utilising records held at the National Archives of Ireland, this article examines the campaign against Picture Post as a case study to offer a deeper comprehension of the Catholic Church inspired crusade against popular ‘foreign’ and ‘immoral’ publications. Understanding the motivations and rationale for targeting periodicals such as Picture Post is central to illuminating not just the censorship mentality that dominated Irish life in the period under consideration but is central also to appreciating the rational offered by morality campaigners in favour of the Irish censorship regime.

作为具有中左翼世界观的创新新闻摄影刊物，《图片邮报》在爱尔兰非常受欢迎，但同时也是 20 世纪爱尔兰最常被禁的期刊之一。高级教会人物和道德活动家认为其新闻摄影是不雅和淫秽的，并参与了长达数十年的持续斗争以禁止该出版物。本文利用爱尔兰国家档案馆保存的记录，将反对 Picture Post 的运动作为案例研究，以更深入地理解受天主教会启发而反对流行的“外国”和“不道德”出版物的运动。