Madam, - Michael Dwyer is not wholly accurate in describing James Montgomery as "the country's first film censor" (Arts, April 7th). The Athlone-born journalist and politician T.P. O'Connor was appointed the first president of the Board of Film Censors in 1917. The certificate with his signature thus preceded the presentation of every film in Britain and Ireland during his tenure. Montgomery's appointment in 1924 was as the first censor of the Irish Free State.
O'Connor, now largely forgotten, was a Parnellite MP and newspaper editor and is commemorated by a plaque in London's Fleet Street. - Yours, etc.,
KEVIN O'SULLIVAN,
Ballyraine Park,
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Letterkenny,
Co Donegal.