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U2 frontman Bono wrote a poem about Ukraine, which was read at St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon

U2 frontman Bono wrote a poem about Ukraine, which was read at St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon

At the annual Friends of Ireland luncheon at the White House, Speaker Pelosi read a poem that she said was written by U2 frontman Bono.

The poem, per Pelosi’s recitation, begins, “Oh Saint Patrick he drove out the snakes,” and it closes with a reference to Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky: “Ireland’s sorrow and pain/Is now the Ukraine/And Saint Patrick’s name now Zelenskyy.”

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