Bono recalls fond memory of dad in new memoir at Dalkey Book Festival

U2 frontman Bono has read from his new memoir recalling fond memories of his dad for Father’s Day at the Dalkey Book Festival.

As part of the Dalkey Book Festival, Bono met Kerry poet Paul Muldoon in Finnegan’s of Dalkey and the pair talked about crafting poems, songs and the process of writing.

Two Fathers, Two Friends was the title of the ticketed event which took place on Father’s Day.

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Bono told the attendees the story of introducing his father, standing at the mixing desk at a U2 gig in Texas, and the crowd responding with a roar “like a 747 taking off over his head”.

He recalled his father later paying him a rare compliment backstage after the show.

“‘You’re very professional,’” Bono recalls his father as saying to him afterward.

Bono often met his father Bob Hewson in Finnegan’s pub on Sundays, and it was in the popular pub that the singer first learned of his father’s terminal cancer.

Bono also spoke about his childhood holidays in Rush in north Dublin, chess lessons from his father and his wedding day to Ali, who was also in the audience at the Dalkey reading.

Bono’s memoir ‘Surrender’ will be published by Penguin Random House and is expected to come out in November.