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The Bully

Irish Boy in Chicago Directs Anti-Bullying Video

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

October 1, 2016 by Leave a Comment

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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February 13, 2001

After two years of living in Tralee and Waterford, refugees from Kosovo were granted the right to become Irish citizens on February 13, 2001. In 1999, almost 1,000 Kosovar refugees first arrived in Ireland. They were displaced due to the ethnic war  and “cleansing” taking place in their homeland, and fled to Ireland under the United Nations Human Rights Council protection programme. Of the 1,000 refugees, most returned home after the Kumanovo Treaty in June of 1999, but 140 of the refugees remained in Ireland and were granted full citizenship in their new homeland on this day in 2001.

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