U2’s Dublin is a new app featuring over 145 locations in and around Dublin connected with U2. Combining U2 and local Dublin history, this app will take you through the places that shaped U2 and their music. It is available now free on Android and iOS.
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Martello Tower, Bray, Co. Wicklow. Bono lived here in the early/mid 1980s and U2 started working on songs for The Unforgettable Fire album in this house. Early versions of 'A Sort of Homecoming', 'Pride' and 'The Unforgettable Fire' were written here.
#Otd 1984: The Unforgettable Fire, @U2's 4th studio album released! Title reference to an art exhibit about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Moydrum Castle, Co Westmeath, depicted on cover. Pride (In the Name of Love), Bad, MLK etc! https://t.co/fQmnZyPcGr https://t.co/ojbKwV7yCx
President @ZelenskyyUa invited us to perform in Kyiv as a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and so that’s what we’ve come to do. -- Bono and The Edge #StandWithUkraine
U2 were awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin on March 18th 2000, and one of the ancient privileges of a Freeman is 'The right to pasture sheep on common ground within the city boundaries.' The following afternoon Bono and The Edge exercised this right in Stephen's Green.
Elsinore, Coliemore Villas, Dalkey, Co. Dublin. Achtung Baby was released 30 years ago today. ‘So Cruel' was written and recorded here. 'The Fly', 'Ultraviolet (Light My Way)', 'Even Better Than the Real Thing' and 'Zoo Station' were also worked on in this house. #AchtungBaby
McGonagles, South Anne Street, Dublin. U2 played in McGonagles at least twenty six times between 1978 and 1979. The venue closed down in the early 1990s.
I cant believe this Photo [and it looks like more] have surfaced after all this time. The Edge, Bono and I in Windmill Lane Studio's, Dublin 40 years ago during the recording of the October album and me with the Uilleann Pipes strapped on! Men at work! 😊