Sinead O'Connor

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Tá mo chroí briste.

Lay your Head down Darling
Sleep now….


My sincere hope is wherever they are She and her son Shane have found peace and each other.

[Auroranorth]

It's not a shock, but it's still sad. I hope her loved ones can find some peace. May her memory be for a blessing.

[cremetangerine82]

Man, this video will make me cry for another reason. Suaimhneas síoraí, Sinéad.

[tabby]

This was always my favorite of hers - The Foggy Dew, with The Chieftains. It's on the Long Black Veil album, one of the best albums ever.

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She was always there and I didn’t realise it, If I’m honest I’m taken aback by how her death has floored me and not just me her death has cracked open emotions here I haven’t seen for someone known but not in along time, her voice like a bell, that voice, I didn’t always hear or listen to it but it was always there, my first big row about religion was with my very catholic parents was about going to mass and that photo and while I didn’t fully understand I knew there was more too it and like everyone I understood. Eventually. She was right.
From a gathering in Dublin. Article by Una Mullaly.
Thank you, Sinead" a sign drawn on cardboard read. "We heard you."

[ikmccall]

I surprised myself at the emotions i felt when i read the tributes to her on social media (from other performers). I almost broke down at work.

[cubanitafresca]

I've been a little surprised how much her death affected me. She was always one of those people you rooted for, wanting them to overcome and succeed. When you look back on her stance on the catholic church, realize she was light years ahead and still willing to take such a public stand - it's really incredible.

[prisma]

This has been somewhat of a slow burn for me. I was shocked but not completely surprised when her death was announced. But as I keep reading more and more remembrances about her that put her achievements and struggles in context, I'm just gutted. Someone I follow referred to her as a warrior and she absolutely was. I've had her music on constantly since her death was announce. But I'm more heartbroken now then I was then.

[cremetangerine82]

Calling her a warrior is a great appellation, prisma. I remember the coverage of Sinéad after she ripped up a photo of the Pope John Paul II. It was OVERWHELMINGLY negative: Joe Pesci on the following week's SNL episode, vowed to give "her such a smack" with applause! It's so hard to stomach people cheering a man discussing physically assaulting a woman. I also remember a steamroller crushing her CDs and tapes in Times Square! My mom mentioned she hasn't seen something like this since John Lennon's "more popular than Christ" controversy. After the Boston Globe's "Spotlight" team uncovered just how much of an epidemic child sexual abuse was in the Roman Catholic Church, she received a much needed re-evaluation and appreciation. I take some solace that she lived to see it.

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This set me off again, this is a lovely letter in the Telegraph about Sinéad’s kindness to this young woman also worth a look in the replies.