{"id":379668,"date":"2026-04-03T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379668\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T08:29:08","slug":"u2-releases-surprise-six-song-easter-lily-album-of-anti-war-anthems-and-personal-ballads-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/379668\/","title":{"rendered":"U2 releases surprise six-song &#039;Easter Lily&#039; album of anti-war anthems and personal ballads &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMivwFBVV95cUxQcnNLUXRjbTZKQlBCUWl2OTBrTzV4NFlXdFg0S1VKV3g2ZzBSTk5YWFRsdXh2ek5ubnJVeEYtS1BMd3hBbDdLemFmcURMNVB6ZnJQQ2c1bHdRSzFkRmlUMDctMko0MjBmYWYtdXhvZS1LUjlqbWVCVEtnb0MtTWdWOW1kSWxNQzhqUENReDhQZGs1cEJQaXJwYXhsbHluU1pWSE1OVkxxbElkTFl5bkt2TGt0Zk9qY283YjF6MEExaw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U2 releases surprise six-song &#8216;Easter Lily&#8217; album of anti-war anthems and personal ballads<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMimgFBVV95cUxOWXBNZkJTRzBLeVZGYVR0bl82WVpNZWVLY3hMNEl6U1NEcW41cmEwZ2VmcDFLMXhJZmk0Z1BBbVlQSnYwekZ1dmVDM0s0NkNYRlJWMnZPTFhMNjdYSzFkQlRjQmJ6UC1nekw0eFdwZUZvR1BQZTJnN3NLeVJ5Y3dGNVVveWlEblRTU2liT0JTb005SEFYUDEyMUlB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U2 surprise fans again with Easter Lily EP<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;RTE.ie<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMibEFVX3lxTE9CRzVxSXpkdHV5cUk0TWRSb19RdmIxeFF6eDJyM1paeGVQc21EX0VBbzdLcEIzbFAzUEpRQmxwYi1oTmhZa2NjdF9VZUk1N0dsaWFvczZNZ2l6TThMai1QNEEyLVVfVjFBU0xFOA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;U2 &#8211; EASTER LILY&#8217; &#8211; NEW EP OUT NOW<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;U2 &gt; Home<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi1AFBVV95cUxNU09Uc0pjVlZKd2E5NndtYS1pdmFrcjFzWjVPeXhuQU9xYmhHZ21FLVRyVUJUN2ozU2xYa01ybmJhS2VlTDh6emJ3ZHotX21HWUZpcy1hMU1QT0F3VGFndkVfOTU1SHRMUEN6YS1GSzM4RXE0bEx2eWt2WF9lVGEta0RDZk5TUHRjell3OWg3S2sxajY2QzBMZjVyaUxRemFLQnZlMElxSV8tZk80anJUYUxrWVR2YnBqX3puM3NEVjJOcVNBbl8zcVM2ZHJWLVo4RF9TRA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U2\u2019s new EP Easter Lily review: An endearingly honest, questing record that\u2019s almost &#8230; cool<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiswFBVV95cUxPd2IzVXdIVXlXb05iUGxSbERzVml0dkFzVEVjNEtLSkpjWlRNcTRIVDFhUUpJQ3FXS285ZEZPUHJtNzFFdjlNc0xJcXluN3pHanhZZTMyMTQtU2pNVUxfTXdnUVVMRE5kXzRCSzBRRV9Ud0RNaHpOd2h4N0lqNWVGcUxiTDU2anh1c2R2bW9SWXpNNUNWTTVESlVNMTUxUkJOd01vOHJEQWhFc0tJWnlaYkZ2OA?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Eno features on reflective and hopeful new U2 record<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BreakingNews.ie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U2 releases surprise six-song &#8216;Easter Lily&#8217; album of anti-war anthems and personal ballads&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalU2 surprise fans again with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[26016,93,61,60,278,3799,660],"class_list":{"0":"post-379668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-bono","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-new-music","14":"tag-u2"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}