Following becoming the first Irish songwriters to receive an Ivors Academy Fellowship award, U2’s band members, including ...

Irish rockers U2 will receive the Ivors Academy Fellowship at this year's Ivors, Britain's annual awards for songwriters and ...

@U2 to receive songwriting’s highest honour: Fellowship of The Ivors Academy Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr ...

The Ivors Academy has today announced U2 as the latest songwriters to become Academy Fellows, the highest honour the organisation bestows. With this, Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr.

"U2's early songs announced a band unafraid to tackle issues of social unrest and human rights, shaping rock's engagement with political activism," the Academy said in a statement. "Their ...

The band will become the first Irish songwriters that the Academy has inducted into Fellowship in its 81-year history.

Becoming an Academy Fellow is the highest honour the organisation bestows, and with today’s (March 20) announcement, the iconic rock band become the first Irish act to be inducted into ...

“U2’s early songs announced a band unafraid to tackle issues of social unrest and human rights, shaping rock’s engagement with political activism,” the Academy said in a statement.