Jonah Maxwell

Irish Boy in Chicago Directs Anti-Bullying Video

By Olivia O’Mahony, Editorial Assistant
October / November 2016

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Dublin-born Chicago middle schooler Jonah Maxwell has tackled the issue of bullying in his school by writing and directing a video on the subject. The Bully, which dramatizes seventh-grader Maxwell’s own experiences, was posted to YouTube in August and brought in over 350,000 views in its first week online. Maxwell, who moved from Ireland to Chicago with his family at the age … [Read more...] about Irish Boy in Chicago Directs Anti-Bullying Video

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Thirty-three years after the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses was released, Ireland finally decided to lift the ban on the film. Many consider Joyce’s great novel to be “unfilmable.” However, Joseph Strick, an idealistic American director, decided to take up the project. His adaptation, much like the book, drew much controversy. Many scenes were cut at its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. In Ireland, film censors unilaterally banned the film saying that it was “subversive to public morality.” Ulysses was the second film to have the ban lifted, following Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1999.

Irish Boy in Chicago Directs Anti-Bullying Video

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