Re: U2: British or Irish?

Robbie Robinson ([email protected])
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:12:50 -0800

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> mullog ([email protected])
>
> Robbie wrote:
> >Let's see, If my memory serves me right, as I understand it:
> >Larry is Dublin Catholic Irish, but Bono would sometimes
> >razz him as that damn Viking because the Blond hair gene
> >in the Irish came from the Viking raiders and settlers.
>
> Good one that...with a name like Hewson...(LOL)

Ye can LOL again. Hewson wasn't always Hewson :)
In "U2 the Rolling Stone Files" or er.."U2 Race of Angels"
(I should footnote my damn notes) there is an interview
with Bono in a Pub and he is looking at a copy of the
document ordering the execution fo King Charles I.
(don't ask me what it was doing there)
He had a good laugh when he saw one of the sigiatures was
a man with the last name MacAodha. He said that that was
his family's surname before it was Anglicized.
Lots of Irish names were Anglicized by the British when
they controlled Ireland. So... he's really Paul MacAodha :)
Sounds a bit more Irish, doesn't it?
Wonder what MacAodha means? Son (or Grandson) of...? Aodha?
OK, what does Aodha mean I wonder?

Robbie

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