U2 frontman discussed Ireland in the 1980s and reflected on his memoir with Fintan O’Toole
‘I can’t believe we’re living here’: Historic Wexford cottage that was at risk of falling into decline is restoredHis lyrical style lets the reader into the death of his mother when he was just 14, Hewson’s first kiss with the woman he later married , how he got the nickname Bono, why U2 prays before every gig and how emergency heart surgery in recent years rocked his world.
Outside on Sunday evening, U2 fans lined up against barriers brandishing their already mangled copies of Surrender – less the hardback cover – presumably waiting for an autograph. Queues stretched around the church and snaked through the lawn. Economist and Irish Times columnist David McWilliams moderated a discussion between fellow columnist Fintan O’Toole and Bono. In his own unique memoir, We Don’t Know Ourselves, O’Toole invited readers into his world through a personal history of Ireland since the year of his birth in 1958, two years before Bono.
“I write to know the world better a bit, but mostly it’s just narcissism ... Everybody knows how singers tune up. It’s an old joke: Me me me me.”Bono later added: “[My book] is taking naval gazing to a whole new level.”
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