In 1960 it was briefly brought back into circulation[1] (writer Peter Green's biography lists him as having been film critic at John O'London's between 1961 and 1963).
Regular contributors included Robert Wilson Lynd, Winston Churchill, Rebecca West, H. E. Bates, Arnold Bennett, Max Beerbohm, John Brophy, W. Somerset Maugham and H. L. A.
[3] The magazine regularly featured a literate section on English grammar and word usage, and would recommend carefully selected good books.
High costs and changing tastes meant that sales did not recover after the war, and in September 1954 the magazine's publishers announced that publication would cease.
While McCourt is delivering magazines to shops for the company Eason's, his boss learns from the Irish government that copies of John O'London's Weekly must be censored because they contain an article about birth control.