Anarchy99
Footballguy
Echoing what I mentioned before about having no clue about important landmarks and events, two of the streets we walked a lot on were Parnell and Talbot Streets. Both were involved in one of the deadliest days as part of The Troubles. On 1974-05-17, the UVF set off four bombs in Dublin, killing a total of 33 people. One of Larry's neighbors was killed.
Bono was often on Talbot Street and said he happened to ride his bike to school that day (and missed being there at the time of the bombing). Raised By Wolves is about that day. Andy Rowen, brother of Bono's best friend Guggi, was there and struggled to get over the carnage he witnessed and turned to drugs to cope. Bono would later say they wrote about him in Bad (as well as dedicating the song to him in concert several times).
There is a memorial commemorating the events on Talbot Street (which apparently, I walked right past and didn't even see). Just down the street is Croke Park, where the band has played 11 times. The band remember their first show there in 1985, their first stadium show as a headliner in front of 57,000 people.
Edge recalls: "That was probably the high point of TUF tour because we really had done it. This wasn't a band that was doing ok. This was a band that was topping the charts and had broken America and the world, coming back to play in their hometown, in the centre of their city. There was an entire stadium jumping up and down to Pride. Making a stadium into a club gig is the way I remember it." By the 2000s, U2 played there to 82,000 people. (I Will Follow with video from that show.) That's also the show they played Springsteen's My Hometown . . . back when Edge had hair.
Croke Park was also a key site during the battle for Irish independence. In 1920, the IRA killed 14 British Intelligence officers. In response, British forces entered the stadium during a GAA match and shot and killed 14 onlookers. Two other officers were killed, bringing the death toll to 30 people that day. This was the first incident labeled as Bloody Sunday (of Sunday Bloody Sunday fame), with the other being the killing of 14 unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland in 1972.
Bono was often on Talbot Street and said he happened to ride his bike to school that day (and missed being there at the time of the bombing). Raised By Wolves is about that day. Andy Rowen, brother of Bono's best friend Guggi, was there and struggled to get over the carnage he witnessed and turned to drugs to cope. Bono would later say they wrote about him in Bad (as well as dedicating the song to him in concert several times).
There is a memorial commemorating the events on Talbot Street (which apparently, I walked right past and didn't even see). Just down the street is Croke Park, where the band has played 11 times. The band remember their first show there in 1985, their first stadium show as a headliner in front of 57,000 people.
Edge recalls: "That was probably the high point of TUF tour because we really had done it. This wasn't a band that was doing ok. This was a band that was topping the charts and had broken America and the world, coming back to play in their hometown, in the centre of their city. There was an entire stadium jumping up and down to Pride. Making a stadium into a club gig is the way I remember it." By the 2000s, U2 played there to 82,000 people. (I Will Follow with video from that show.) That's also the show they played Springsteen's My Hometown . . . back when Edge had hair.
Croke Park was also a key site during the battle for Irish independence. In 1920, the IRA killed 14 British Intelligence officers. In response, British forces entered the stadium during a GAA match and shot and killed 14 onlookers. Two other officers were killed, bringing the death toll to 30 people that day. This was the first incident labeled as Bloody Sunday (of Sunday Bloody Sunday fame), with the other being the killing of 14 unarmed civilians in Northern Ireland in 1972.
