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The Lowdown on the U2 Controversy
Ireland’s most famous band, U2, has been getting a lot of headline attention these past few days. If you’ve checked your iTunes account recently, you might have noticed a new addition to your albums. U2 has collaborated with Apple to release their newest album, Songs of Innocence, and deliver it automatically to your iTunes account, free of…
Continue ReadingU2: Brendan Kennelly’s Number One Fans
Like many Irish people, the poet Brendan Kennelly is a fan of the band U2. However, Kennelly has a leg up on his fellow U2 fans: the band is a fan of him. Kennelly is often called “the people’s poet” for his open, accessible style, (Dublin’s Sunday Tribune). Kennelly’s epic poem, The Book of Judas,…
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