Puritanical Ireland’s great poster cover-up

They may appear like they’ve had the Fr Ted treatment, but some of these vintage movie posters are testament to the social censorship of 1950s and 1960s Ireland.

They feature the rather unartistic painted additions to the costumes of scantily-clad movie stars of the era. In all cases, it was the ladies in the images who had their wardrobes hastily redesigned for Irish eyes.

Among the better-known risquée-in-their-day images to get the moralistic makeover was that of Marilyn Monroe with her skirt lifted by the hot air of a subway grate, from the 1955 release The Seven-Year Itch.