A St. Patrick's Day Story: Did I Disappoint You?

On the feast day of Ireland's patron saint, U2's Bono and The Edge look back and take stock while charting a way forward — and so do I.

The author, sitting outside a castle door somewhere in Northern Ireland, on her honeymoon, October 1996. Photo by Maurice Possley.

Beannachtaí na Féile Padraig daoibh go léir!

I spent the first several of hours of this Feast Day of Naomh Padraig — my first as an actual Irish citizen — watching Bono and the Edge show Dave Letterman around Dublin in the new…