Sinead O’Connor has died

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why she always covered her head in a scarf? Was this some sort of religious thing? A political statement? Fashion choice?

I believe she converted to Islam for a bit. Her memoir Rememberings is really interesting and there's a documentary about her on HBO Max that's also very good. Coming from a very dysfunctional Irish-American family I really appreciated how she laid out the relationship between abuse by the Church, abuse by the State, mental illness, and abuse in families.

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Amazing human. RIP.

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So sad

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Anonymous wrote:I love her album The Lion & The Cobra. I was listening to it the other day. How sad. She was so talented.

I only like some of her songs, but the ones I like, I LOVE. This is one of them. The Last Day of Our Acquaintance is my other favorite.

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It surprised me that she converted to Muslim given her feminist views and her disdain for Catholicism. I would assume she would eschew any organized religion that supports abuse and control (I'm saying this knowing Islam has many lovely beliefs).

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I think once you lose a child the will to live on is hard.

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Anonymous wrote:The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.

Actually her mother has a lot to answer for. When she put her in a home run by Catholic nuns, one of them spotted she could sing, bought her a guitar and got her lessons.

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Nothing compares to you.
Godspeed Sinead!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain why she always covered her head in a scarf? Was this some sort of religious thing? A political statement? Fashion choice?

I believe she converted to Islam for a bit. Her memoir Rememberings is really interesting and there's a documentary about her on HBO Max that's also very good. Coming from a very dysfunctional Irish-American family I really appreciated how she laid out the relationship between abuse by the Church, abuse by the State, mental illness, and abuse in families.

I think the documentary is on Showtime, not Max.

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Anonymous wrote:The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.

Actually her mother has a lot to answer for. When she put her in a home run by Catholic nuns, one of them spotted she could sing, bought her a guitar and got her lessons.

She had nothing else good to say about that home, aside from the lovely nun with the guitar, and described the ways that they abused and shamed her. Please don't rewrite history for this woman who lived so honestly.

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oh no! Her death comes after her 17-year-old son, Shane O’Connor, died of an apparent suicide last year

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Catholic Church has a lot to answer for.

Actually her mother has a lot to answer for. When she put her in a home run by Catholic nuns, one of them spotted she could sing, bought her a guitar and got her lessons.

She had nothing else good to say about that home, aside from the lovely nun with the guitar, and described the ways that they abused and shamed her. Please don't rewrite history for this woman who lived so honestly.

I am not rewriting anything, if you knew about that nun you should have mentioned her, not lumped her in with a bunch of seedy criminals.

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Anonymous wrote:oh no! Her death comes after her 17-year-old son, Shane O’Connor, died of an apparent suicide last year

No shit

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Anonymous wrote:She was such a talented beautiful soul.

Really struggled for years with mental health (and physical health issues) -- horrific abuse at the hands of her mother, BPD.

As she once said, she went straight from an abusive childhood into the music business (she was locked up for 1.5 years in the Magdelene Asylum as a teen for shoplifting) and never had the proper time and space to heal.

Her son died by suicide a few years ago, which gutted her.

She had a full hysterectomy recently for painful endometriosis, which triggered memories of her childhood abuse and when she was released from hospital had a breakdown threatening to kill herself on social media.

RIP, Sinead. She really had the voice of an angel.

She was also molested by a priest.

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One of a kind. I hope she is finding peace.