Sean Underwood

When Things Get Tough,
the Tough Get Rowing

By Sharon Ní Chonchúir, Contributor
June / July 2018

May 9, 2018 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/sharon-ni-chonchuir/">Sharon Ní Chonchúir</a>, Contributor<br/><a href="https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/june-july-2018/">June / July 2018</a> Leave a Comment

Four young doctors team up for a transatlantic row for a good cause. ℘℘℘ What takes 32 days, 22 hours and 5,500 kilometers to complete? If you’re the four young men who set a new record when they arrived in Antigua on January 16, the answer is rowing across the Atlantic. “We had calluses on our hands and our calf muscles had wasted away so much that it took a couple of days … [Read more...] about When Things Get Tough,
the Tough Get Rowing

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.

When Things Get Tough,
the Tough Get Rowing

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