Poet Cathal O'Searcaigh's love for Nepalese boys may cost him a place on University curriculum. [Independent]
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he is a pedophile. he might say he is gay but he is a pedophile.
In answer to your headline's question: Yes.
Whilst nobody disputes what O'Searchaigh did in Nepal was questionable and wrong, the issue regarding his poetry is separate to that. If we believed that we should hold all artists to the same standards which we now purport to hold O'Searchaigh to, then we, in Ireland at least would be removing our prized Caravaggio from the National Gallery because he murdered a bloke. Or we would be censoring the great works of Oscar Wilde because of his own panache for young men and his subsequent prosecution.
Coincidently, The Dept. of Education in Ireland has decided that his poetry is to be left on the Irish Leaving Certificate syllabus-this is the equilivant of the SATS or the GCSEs. If it was good enough to be put on in the first place, it is good enough now.