Jennifer Horgan

1 week ago | irishexaminer.com | Jennifer Horgan

The criticism has been rolling in against Bono online, in response to his recent speech when receiving one of songwriting’s highest honours – Fellowship of the Ivors Academy. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, and Larry Mullen Jr are the first-ever Irish songwriters that the academy has inducted into fellowship during its 81-year history. You’d think we’d be happy to celebrate with them, but this criticism of Bono’s speech has overshadowed any possibility of national pride.

2 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Jennifer Horgan

It’s depressing to hear people as wonderful as Blindboy joining the assault on mainstream media. First things first — I’m an ardent fan of the man. I relish walking my dog friend Nero, listening to Blindboy's highly articulate, crafted, sometimes glitteringly beautiful, exploration of critical issues. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

3 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Jennifer Horgan

I hit the bullies where it hurt. “Ya, well I’m going on holidays to France!” Holidays were a big deal in the 80s — a decade when pasta was an exotic dinner choice. “And we’ve two cars!” Thankfully my bullies never sat inside our second ‘car’. It had a giant hole in the bottom, through which I once lost a shoe. My bullies, a band of boys, were relentlessly cruel. Their parents’ bank balance was fair game. How times have changed.

4 weeks ago | irishexaminer.com | Jennifer Horgan

I met Jimmy in the summer of 2001 in a bar in Newport, Rhode Island. I was on my J1, four months stretching ahead of me — a glorious sense of summer. It was a love affair wrapped inside a love affair. The cultural romance between Ireland and America back then created a separate, magnetic attraction. He loved Irish girls, just as I loved American boys. style, the force was with us. Subscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.

1 month ago | irishexaminer.com | Jennifer Horgan

“Where we don’t settle, terror grows.” The speaker, a man who left New York for Israel at the age of nine, is talking to Louis Theroux at the start of his documentary, . The gun slung around the New Yorker’s shoulder extends beyond his knees. He uses the word "right" more than once. Louis Theroux, and his friend Adam Buxton, are among my constant (podcast) companions. Reminiscent of many of the English boys I taught abroad, they are quick-witted, kind, and funny.