Bono Says His Family 'Didn't Speak' About His Mother Iris After She Died When He Was 14: 'Very Irish Male Situation'

The U2 frontman opened up about his late mother on the Friday, May 10 episode of the 'Kelly Corrigan Wonders' podcast

Bono's mother wasn't a topic of conversation after she died.

During the Friday, May 10 episode of the Kelly Corrigan Wonders podcast, the U2 frontman — whose real name is Paul David Hewson — opened up about how his family didn't speak about his mother Iris after she died when he was 14, per The Guardian.

"I've got very few details about my mother and I wrote the book [Surrender] to kind of hook some of those memories out of that river that goes by with all, with your life in it and suddenly it's passed you by," Bono, 64, said. "And I thought, I don't want my memories of my mother to pass me by completely. And they were getting less and less and less."

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The "With or Without You" artist also explained that his brother, Norman, didn't have many memories of his mother either, despite being seven years older.

"That's because when she died I was 14, and my father just didn't speak about her," Bono recalled. "We didn't speak about her. Very Irish male situation. So I can't really recall how she spoke. I remember feelings though."

The Irish rocker said that he recalls pieces of personality when it comes to his mother.

"I remember mischief. I remember humor. I remember that she could, you know, put a plug on the kettle. And a problem solver," Bono said.

He added that she was "completely unpretentious" and "a beauty."

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In Bono's 2022 memoir Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story, he revealed that his mother, Iris, collapsed at her father's funeral in 1974 and died in a Dublin hospital within days after having an aneurysm, according to The Guardian.

“I fear it was worse than that. That we rarely thought of her again,” he wrote in the book of his father, Bob, and brother Norman, per the outlet. “We were three Irish men, and we avoided the pain that we knew would come from thinking and speaking about her.”

Bono released a song tribute to his late mother with "Iris (Hold Me Close)" in 2014 from U2's album Songs of Innocence.

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