Kathleen Sebelius

When It Comes to Health, Kathleen Cares

By Patricia Harty, Editor-in-Chief
August / September 2013

August 1, 2013 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/patricia-harty/">Patricia Harty</a>, Editor-in-Chief<br/></a><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2013-archive/august-september-2013/">August / September 2013</a> Leave a Comment

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (née Gilligan) on the future of American health care, her father’s influence, her Irish heritage, and other topics. "I’m a descendant of Irish immigrants. My great-grandmother worked as a maid in the home of William Howard Taft, before he became president. Decades later, the grandson of the president and my father, the … [Read more...] about When It Comes to Health, Kathleen Cares

September 27, 2000

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.

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