Songs from a small island

IS INISHEER one of the most beautiful songs there has ever been? I’ve heard it played on an acco...

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Joe Horgan

When does a blow-in belong?

YOU’LL have heard the phrase blow-in. It’s used here in Ireland to describe those who move into a...

22.08.2025 10

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Two castles, two churches, one big question

FROM where I was sitting on a fine sunny day I looked back at a landscape I’d roamed as a child. ...

16.08.2025 9

Joe Horgan

The Ireland we carried with us

ONE of the most characteristic aspects of growing up Irish in England was that it was primarily h...

05.08.2025 10

Joe Horgan

A phrasebook of Irishness abroad

WHAT time is it there? That was the first one that seemed to confuse them. This was around the ti...

02.08.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Born in Britain, still not English

THERE are quite clearly some people who were born and raised in Irish families in England who con...

23.07.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Ireland abroad in England's inner city

THE roll call in the classroom of a morning went along these lines. Condon, Daly, Egan, Horgan, ...

12.07.2025 20

Joe Horgan

The Ireland that still works

THIS Ireland might be a small island on the edge of Europe. An often wet, windy, place facing ou...

04.07.2025 30

Joe Horgan

The island of strangers - we once were them, now we watch on as they're blamed for everything

WE ARE in a time where we are told that what concerns most people is migration. Not just here in...

21.06.2025 20

Joe Horgan

The strength and strangeness of Irish smallness

ONE of the things about Ireland, or at least rural Ireland, and we still have one of the highest ...

13.06.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Last orders for Irish pubs?

WHAT’S happening to the pub? Over the last twenty years more than 2,000 pubs have closed. Here in...

07.06.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Home for the summer, not just a holiday

IF WE had the summers they have elsewhere, the consistent, reliable sun and heat, what would our ...

24.05.2025 9

Joe Horgan

Citizen journalism is pseudo journalist

I’M NOT a journalist. I think I could say I’m a columnist and I think I could say I’m a writer o...

10.05.2025 8

Joe Horgan

Literary landscapes: Seeing Ireland through its writers

I SPENT a couple of lovely days in the city of Galway recently and while I was there I read a boo...

18.04.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Immigration isn’t the problem - inequality is

THERE’S an awful lot of rhetoric about immigration these days, isn’t there? There’s a host of po...

05.04.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Did we lose our Irish, or did we willingly give it up?

DO you have the cúpla focal? To be honest isn’t that just what the vast majority of us have? Jus...

28.02.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Raised in England, rooted in Ireland

Straddling two cultures — an Irish childhood lived in the shadow of English floodlights and Irish...

26.02.2025 10

Joe Horgan

Remembering the Irish emigrant and the vanished Ireland they left behind

I WAS in the lovely city of Galway recently. For a while I sat in a car park outside a Lidl and t...

07.02.2025 8

Joe Horgan

Warmth and celebration in a winter of change

IT was not unusual for my father to work over Christmas. There were six of us and it was extra m...

25.12.2024 10

Joe Horgan

The value of voting in an era of apathy

ONE of the peculiarities of the Irish electoral system is that you can see exactly how many peopl...

13.12.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Growing up Irish in England

I SOMETIMES find it bizarre that even when I’m talking to my own kids about my Irish upbringing t...

15.11.2024 10

Joe Horgan

Ireland united in theory but divided in practice

I MUST be missing something. I was listening recently to an interview with Lynn Boylan, the Sinn ...

27.10.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Ireland’s rich harvest of literature

ACCORDING to the publicists every year since I’ve been here, and presumably well before that too,...

04.10.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Language matters - so do lies

WHEN a candidate for possibly the most powerful position in the world, said person having once he...

18.09.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Craic, not chauvinism – celebrating Irishness

ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...

20.08.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Beyond the past towards a shared future

IT IS one of those unavoidable things but quite often as Irish people we end up talking about Eng...

16.08.2024 3

Joe Horgan

Craic, not chauvinism – celebrating Irishness

ONE of the fine things about being Irish is that we are more than ready not to make a big fuss ab...

13.08.2024 4

Joe Horgan

Disappearing Ireland – is the digital one better?

MY FATHER never drove a car. He never sent an email. He never sent a text message. He certainly n...

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