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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 14:40:22 GMT -4
No news other than.... 25 years since Sinead tore up a photo Looking back, however, it’s clear that she was simply ahead of her time and sharing truths that the world was neither ready to accept nor acknowledge, particularly when the messenger was a bolshy 25-year-old woman.
Sinead O’Connor spoke truth to power at a time when it was unfashionable and paid a hefty price for it, both professionally and emotionally. |
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Post by Mutagen on Oct 6, 2017 14:49:22 GMT -4
Very well said. A lot of artists and rock stars may try to call themselves "rebels" but Sinead put them to shame. Whatever else you want to say about her, it was both prescient and courageous.
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Post by ikmccall on Oct 6, 2017 17:31:35 GMT -4
I will always cheer her on because of this.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2017 17:44:06 GMT -4
From the article a quote from Sinead ... "The Catholic Church have controlled us by controlling education. Through their teachings on sexuality, marriage, birth control and abortion. And most spectacularly through the lies they taught us with their history books." As an irish person in 2017 it is still somewhat prelevant sadly, and one many reasons I have no regard for the church or its opinions and hypocrisy. Edit...to add some music with Peter Gabriel live , Dont give up 1990 Sinead and Shane, Haunted live so not perfect but I love the song. |
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Post by narm on Oct 7, 2017 0:47:28 GMT -4
She's incredible.
The Catholic Church I was brought up in largely informed my world view on charity, and oddly enough, social justice. The powers that be would likely not appreciate what I pursue as social justice now. It's maddening, and this moment 25 years ago was a touchstone in my teenage life.
I love Sinead. I wish her peace and happiness.
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Post by chonies on Oct 7, 2017 8:46:28 GMT -4
From the article a quote from Sinead ... "The Catholic Church have controlled us by controlling education. Through their teachings on sexuality, marriage, birth control and abortion. And most spectacularly through the lies they taught us with their history books." As an irish person in 2017 it is still somewhat prelevant sadly, and one many reasons I have no regard for the church or its opinions and hypocrisy. Edit...to add some music with Peter Gabriel live , Dont give up 1990 Sinead and Shane, Haunted live so not perfect but I love the song. I love Haunted so much--I was such a huge huge huge fan of Sinead and the Pogues that the mere existence of this song is almost everything, even if it squicked me out then and now to think of Sinead and Shane singing a flirty duet. I'm wishing my former teen self a Happy 25th Anniversary of a world-rocking, life-changing event. It still feels like it was last week, according to the calendar of the heart. During my educational trip in Ireland this past summer, I learned quite a bit about the emergence and role of the Catholic dominance of the national school system, so Sinead was kind of there, too, even though no one said anything about that. I chuckled grimly to myself when I wasn't stifling tears triggered by centuries of structural violence, and thought about what Sinead taught me. |
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Post by kateln on Oct 9, 2017 19:50:44 GMT -4
The Catholic Church I was brought up in largely informed my world view on charity, and oddly enough, social justice. The powers that be would likely not appreciate what I pursue as social justice now. It's maddening, and this moment 25 years ago was a touchstone in my teenage life. At the time I attended it, my high school was run by the Oblates of St. Francis DeSales--and from what I saw, the were a pretty hippy/liberal group of guys. They didn't trash Sinead when she did this (but rather discussed why they disagreed), and actually talked about BC/condoms/and AIDS with us (I mean they took a conservative view point on it, but they talked about it). |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 20:26:57 GMT -4
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Post by ikmccall on Jan 14, 2018 20:31:15 GMT -4
I will never get tired of The Chieftains' The Long Black Veil. Every song is perfection. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2018 20:44:48 GMT -4
The Foggy DewIts funny I thought nothing of Irish songs and music growing up, it wasn't cool or anything, but now I'd love to be able to even half play the tin whistle such a small but beautiful instrument. I'm tone deaf so I'd be awful but no harm in wishing and wondering.
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