Panti Bliss

Hibernia Arts:
An Irish Riot

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
February / March 2018

January 29, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/adam-farley/">Adam Farley</a>, Deputy Editor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/february-march-2018/">February / March 2018</a> Leave a Comment

In February, New York City’s Irish Arts Center will stage a three-night run of one of the most unique Irish theater spectacles of the year. The production, called RIOT, won Best Production at the 2016 Dublin Fringe Festival and sold out shows in Sydney, Australia, in January. Starring legendary Irish drag queen Panti Bliss, the cabaret also features a host of aerial artists, … [Read more...] about Hibernia Arts:
An Irish Riot

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.

Hibernia Arts:
An Irish Riot

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