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{{Short description|Irish singer (1966–2023)}} | |||
{{For|the fictional character from ''Hollyoaks''|Sinead O'Connor (Hollyoaks)}} | |||
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{{Infobox musical artist | |||
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|Name = Sinéad O'Connor | |||
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|Background = solo_singer | |||
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| name = Sinéad O'Connor | ||
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| image = Sinead O'Connor (14828633401) (cropped).jpg | ||
| caption = O'Connor performing in 2014 | |||
|Birth_name = Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor | |||
| birth_name = Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor | |||
|Origin = ], ], Ireland | |||
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1966|12|8|df=yes}} | ||
| birth_place = ], Ireland | |||
|Died = | |||
| alias = {{hlist|Mother Bernadette Mary|Magda Davitt|Shuhada' Sadaqat<ref name=Allmusicbio />}} | |||
|Genre = ], ], ] | |||
| death_date = {{Death date and age|2023|07|26|1966|12|8|df=yes}} | |||
|Occupation = ], ], ] | |||
| death_place = ], London, England | |||
|Years_active = 1986–present | |||
| resting_place = ] | |||
|Instrument = ], ], ], ], ], ] | |||
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter|musician|activist}} | |||
|Voice_type = ]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Mezzo-soprano_-_Famous_mezzo-sopranos/id/1762431|title=List of Mezzo-sopranos}}</ref> | |||
| works = ] | |||
|First_album = '']'' (1987) | |||
| partner = <!--Partner is for unmarried/long-term life partners, not a list of boyfriends or fiancés--> | |||
|Notable songs = "]" (1990) | |||
| spouse = {{plainlist | | |||
|Label = ], ], ] | |||
* {{marriage|]|1989|1991|reason=divorced}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 March 1989 |title=Rocker Sinead is wed|page=3 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/3Oyz59tYleIq |access-date=27 July 2023 |via=] |url-status=live |archive-date=27 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727020830/https://prnt.sc/3Oyz59tYleIq}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=11 November 1991 |title=Sinead takes divorce option |page=5 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/3f6qsyBZEVmx |access-date=27 July 2023 |via=] |url-status=live |archive-date=27 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727020831/https://prnt.sc/3f6qsyBZEVmx}}</ref> | |||
|Associated_acts = | |||
* {{marriage|Nick Sommerlad|2001|2003|reason=divorced}}<ref name="Nolan 1">{{Cite news |last=Nolan |first=Marie |date=8 February 2003 |title=Sinead's second marriage finished |pages=1 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/QJCyG5juw6Sk |access-date=31 July 2023 |via=] |url-status=live |archive-date=11 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811205351/https://prnt.sc/QJCyG5juw6Sk}}</ref> | |||
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* {{marriage|]|2010|2011|reason=divorced}}<ref name=":2" /> | |||
* {{marriage|Barry Herridge|2011|<!--uncertain-->}}<ref name=":3" /><ref name="independent.ie">{{Cite web |date=20 February 2014 |title='I married the right man... I'm renewing my marriage vows to Barry' – Sinead O'Connor |url=https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/i-married-the-right-man-im-renewing-my-marriage-vows-to-barry-sinead-oconnor/30026578.html |access-date=30 July 2023 |website=Independent.ie |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=30 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730171801/https://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/i-married-the-right-man-im-renewing-my-marriage-vows-to-barry-sinead-oconnor/30026578.html}}</ref> | |||
}} | }} | ||
| children = 4 | |||
| relatives = ] (brother) | |||
| module = {{Infobox musical artist|embed=yes | |||
| genre = {{hlist|]|]|]}} | |||
| years_active = 1986–2023 | |||
| instruments = {{hlist|Vocals|guitar}} | |||
| label = {{hlist|]|]|]|Chocolate and Vanilla|]|]}} | |||
| website = {{URL|sineadoconnor.com}} | |||
}} | |||
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'''Shuhada' Sadaqat'''{{efn|{{langx|ar|شهداء صدقات|Shuhadāʾ Ṣadaqāt|] ]}}.}} (born '''Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor''' ({{IPAc-en|ʃ|ɪ|ˈ|n|eɪ|d|audio=en-us-Sinéad.oga}} {{respell|shin|AYD}}); 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdBOyvtpQA&t=10s|title=Can fame make you happy? {{!}} Big Questions with Sinéad O'Connor|publisher=Penguin Books UK|date=4 June 2021|access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> Her debut studio album, '']'', was released in 1987 and achieved international chart success. Her 1990 album, '']'', was her biggest commercial success, selling over seven million copies worldwide.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11007782/Sinead-OConnor-Live-with-the-devil-and-you-find-theres-a-God.html|title=Sinéad O'Connor: 'Live with the devil and you find there's a God'|newspaper=The Telegraph|first=Neil|last=McCormick|date=26 July 2023|orig-date=2 August 2014|access-date=7 June 2019|archive-date=29 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629073343/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/11007782/Sinead-OConnor-Live-with-the-devil-and-you-find-theres-a-God.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Its lead single, "]", was honoured as the top world single of the year at the ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Winners Database|url=https://www.billboardmusicawards.com/winners-database/|access-date=30 June 2021|website=Billboard Music Awards|language=en|archive-date=13 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313152551/https://www.billboardmusicawards.com/winners-database/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
O'Connor achieved chart success with '']'' (1992) and '']'' (1994), both ] in the UK,<ref name="bpi">{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |title=Certified Awards Search |access-date=2 February 2011 |work=www.bpi.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115055129/http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx |archive-date=15 January 2013}}</ref> as well as '']'' (2000), certified gold in Australia.<ref>{{cite certification|region=Australia|certyear=2000| access-date = 2024-12-22}}</ref> '']'' (2005) achieved gold status in Ireland.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.irishcharts.ie/awards/gold.htm| title = 2005 Certification Awards| access-date = 7 February 2011}}</ref> Her career encompassed songs for films, collaborations with numerous artists, and appearances at charity fundraising concerts. O'Connor's memoir, ''],'' was released in 2021 and became a bestseller.<ref>{{Cite web|first=Martin |last=Chilton |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/sinead-oconnor-rememberings-review-b1854311.html |title=Books of the Month: From Sinead O'Connor's Rememberings to Lisa Taddeo's Animal |work=The Independent |date=3 June 2021 |access-date=31 May 2022 |url-status=live |archive-date=31 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531070115/https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/sinead-oconnor-rememberings-review-b1854311.html}}</ref> | |||
'''Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ʃ|ɪ|ˈ|n|eɪ|d|_|oʊ|ˈ|k|ɒ|n|ər}};<ref>See .</ref> born 8 December 1966) is an Irish ]. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album '']'' and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "]". | |||
O'Connor drew attention to issues such as ], ], racism, and ]. During a ] in 1992, she tore up a photograph of ] to protest against ], sparking controversy. Throughout her musical career, she openly discussed her spiritual journey, activism, socio-political viewpoints, and her experiences with trauma and struggles with ]. Having ] in 2018, she adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat<ref name="Allmusicbio" /><ref name="auto1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-ireland-islam-intl/index.html|title=Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam and changes name to Shuhada'|last=Wilkinson|first=Bard|website=]|date=26 October 2018|access-date=1 June 2021|archive-date=7 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210707045203/https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-ireland-islam-intl/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="auto2">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45987127|title=Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam|date=26 October 2018|work=BBC News|access-date=26 October 2018|archive-date=1 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210601235653/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45987127|url-status=live}}</ref> while continuing to perform and record under her birth name.<ref name="auto3">{{cite web |last=Hanratty |first=Dave |date=8 September 2019 |title=Reaction to Sinéad O'Connor on Late Late shows we still have a long way to go on empathy and mental health |url=https://www.joe.ie/fitness-health/sinead-oconnor-late-late-show-mental-health-681006 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412182342/https://www.joe.ie/fitness-health/sinead-oconnor-late-late-show-mental-health-681006 |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=13 September 2019 |website=]}}</ref> In 2024, O'Connor was posthumously nominated for induction into the ]. | |||
Since then, she has occasionally encountered controversy, partly due to her forthright statements and gestures, ordination as a priest despite being female with a ] background, and expressed strong views on ], ], ], and ] while still maintaining a singing career. | |||
== Early life and education == | |||
Her body of work includes a number of collaborations with other artists and appearances at charity fundraising concerts, in addition to her own solo albums. | |||
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Sisario |first1=Ben |last2=Coscarelli |first2=Joe |date=26 July 2023 |title=Sinead O'Connor, Evocative and Outspoken Singer, Is Dead at 56 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-dead.html |url-status=live |access-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727125051/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-dead.html |archive-date=27 July 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> was born on 8 December 1966 at the Cascia House Nursing Home on ] in ].<ref name="Allmusicbio" /> She was named Sinéad after ], the mother of the doctor who presided over her delivery (]), and Bernadette in honour of ].<ref>{{Cite news |last=McCarthy |first=Justine |date=3 February 1990 |title=My daughter Sinead... |pages=11 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/ZKNr8ogp4w0s |access-date=3 March 2023|via=]}}</ref><ref name="sodifferent">{{cite book|first=Dermott |last=Hayes |title=Sinéad O'Connor: So Different |publisher=] |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-71192-482-6}}</ref> She was the third of five children;<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=29 May 2021 |title=Sinéad O'Connor: 'I'll always be a bit crazy, but that's OK' |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/29/sinead-oconnor-ill-always-be-a-bit-crazy-but-thats-ok-rememberings |access-date=26 July 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |url-status=live |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107141735/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/29/sinead-oconnor-ill-always-be-a-bit-crazy-but-thats-ok-rememberings}}</ref> an older brother is the novelist ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 February 2011 |title=Nothing compares to you, Joe tells his sister Sinead |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/nothing-compares-to-you-joe-tells-his-sister-sinead/26705415.html |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=Independent.ie |language=en |last=Sweeney |first=Ken |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726182217/https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/nothing-compares-to-you-joe-tells-his-sister-sinead/26705415.html |archive-date=26 July 2023}}</ref> Her parents were John Oliver "Seán" O'Connor, a ] later turned ]<ref name=":4" /> and chairperson of the ],<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 June 2007 |title=Sinead's love of her 'devil' mum |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sineads-love-of-her-devil-mum/26297965.html |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=Independent.ie |language=en |last=O'Connor |first=Brendan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230726184445/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sineads-love-of-her-devil-mum/26297965.html |archive-date=26 July 2023}}</ref> and Johanna Marie O'Grady (1939–1985), who married in 1960 at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, ]. She attended ] school in ].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Gilmore |first1=Mikal |title=Sinead O'Connor: The Decade's First New Superstar |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sinead-oconnor-the-decades-first-new-superstar-194020/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=11 August 2023 |date=14 June 1990 |quote=In the early Eighties, Sinéad's father sent her to Sion Hill, in Blackrock — a school for girls with behavioral problems, run by Dominican nuns — and then to a succession of boarding schools that included Mayfield {{sic}} College, in Drumcondra, and Newtown School, in Waterford.}}</ref> | |||
In her 2021 memoir, '']'', O'Connor wrote that she was regularly beaten by her mother, who also taught her to steal from the ] at ] and from charity tins.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |last=Sturges |first=Fiona |date=11 June 2021 |title=Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor review – a tremendous catalogue of misbehaviour |language=en-GB |work=] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/11/rememberings-by-sinead-oconnor-review-a-tremendous-catalogue-of-misbehaviour |access-date=4 August 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |url-status=live |archive-date=9 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210909201340/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jun/11/rememberings-by-sinead-oconnor-review-a-tremendous-catalogue-of-misbehaviour}}</ref> In 1979, at age 13, O'Connor went to live with her father, who had recently returned to Ireland after marrying Viola Margaret Suiter ({{née|Cook}}) in ], United States, in 1976.<ref>"Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936–1988", database with images, '''' (20 February 2021), John Oliver O'Connor and Viola Margaret Suiter, 18 June 1976; from "Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700–1850", database and images, '''' (2012); citing Alexandria, Virginia, United States, certificate 76-019430, Virginia Department of Health, Richmond.</ref> | |||
==Early life== | |||
Sinéad O'Connor was born in ] in ] and was named after ], wife of Irish President ] and mother of the doctor presiding over the delivery, and ].<ref name="sodifferent">], ''Sinéad O'Connor: So Different'', ], 1991</ref> She is the middle of five children, sister to Joseph, Eimear, John, and Eoin. ] is a novelist. | |||
At the age of 15, following her acts of shoplifting and truancy, O'Connor was placed for 18 months in the Grianán Training Centre in ],<ref name="HighParkComplex">{{Cite web |title=High Park Reformatory, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland |url=http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/DublinHighPark/ |access-date=9 August 2023 |website=childrenshomes.org.uk}}</ref> which was run by the ].<ref name=wp20100325>{{Cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html | newspaper=] | title=To Sinead O'Connor, the pope's apology for sex abuse in Ireland seems hollow | date=28 March 2010 | access-date=11 September 2017 | archive-date=3 September 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903032953/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html | url-status=live}}</ref> She thrived in certain aspects, particularly in the development of her writing and music, but she chafed under the imposed conformity of the asylum, despite being given freedoms not granted to the other girls, such as attending an outside school and being allowed to listen to music, write songs, etc. For punishment, O'Connor described how "if you were bad, they sent you upstairs to sleep in the old folks' home. You're in there in the pitch black, you can smell the shit and the puke and everything, and these old women are moaning in their sleep ... I have never—and probably will never—experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=McNeil |first=Legs |date=April 1990 |title=Sinead |url={{Google books |id=GJ2P1hu6nToC |page=54 |text=such panic and terror and agony |plainurl=yes}} |magazine=] |location=New York City |publisher=Camouflage Associates |access-date=23 October 2020}}</ref> She later attended ] in Drumcondra,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/herald/maryfield-a-class-apart/28962030.html|title=Maryfield a class apart|last=Scully|first=Niall|date=4 December 201|access-date=12 August 2023|website=Independent.ie}}</ref> and ] in ] for fifth and sixth year as a boarder, but did not sit the ] in 1985.<ref>{{cite web |last=Carroll |first=Rory |title='An incredible loss': Ireland shares memories of Sinéad O'Connor |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-ireland-shares-memories |website=The Guardian |access-date=28 July 2023 |date=27 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=4 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230804003908/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-ireland-shares-memories}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Teacher recalls Sinead O'Connor's time at Newtown and performances at T and H Doolan's |url=https://www.wlrfm.com/news/teacher-recalls-sinead-oconnors-time-at-newtown-and-performances-at-t-and-h-doolans-317463 |last=Foley |first=Kieran |website=WLRFM.com |access-date=28 July 2023 |language=en |date=26 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=6 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806135120/https://www.wlrfm.com/news/teacher-recalls-sinead-oconnors-time-at-newtown-and-performances-at-t-and-h-doolans-317463}}</ref> | |||
Her parents are Sean O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned ], and Marie O'Connor. The couple married young and had a troubled relationship, separating when Sinéad was eight. The three eldest children went to live with their mother, where O'Connor claims they were subjected to frequent physical abuse. Her song "Fire on Babylon" is about the effects of her own ], and she has consistently advocated on behalf of abused children. Sean O'Connor's efforts to secure custody of his children in a country which routinely gave custody to the mother and prohibited ] motivated him to become chairman of the Divorce Action Group and a prominent public spokesman. At one point, he even debated his own wife on the subject on a radio show. | |||
On 10 February 1985, when O'Connor was 18, her mother died in a car accident, aged 45, after losing control of her car on an icy road in ] and crashing into a bus.<ref>{{Cite news |date=26 February 1985 |title=Schoolboy swept to death from rock |pages=11 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/xVuPclHN3Ujd |access-date=5 October 2022|via=]}}</ref><ref name="Marie">{{cite web|url=https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-she-still-loves-mother-despite-abuse-dr-phil/|title=Sinéad O'Connor Says She Still Loves Her Mother Despite Years of Physical and Sexual Abuse|first=Dave|last=Quinn|work=]|date=12 September 2017|access-date=22 July 2021|archive-date=22 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210722213759/https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-she-still-loves-mother-despite-abuse-dr-phil/|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 1993, O'Connor wrote a public letter in '']'' in which she asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing ..." The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews. Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". That month, Sinéad said: "Our family is very messed up. We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I for one am in agony."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/75b63677eceede6a82d4d0d04262dfd3|title=Singer and Family Rummage Through Their Psyches in Public|work=]|date=1 July 1993|access-date=5 October 2013|archive-date=6 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006065753/http://www.apnewsarchive.com/1993/Singer-and-Family-Rummage-Through-Their-Psyches-in-Public/id-75b63677eceede6a82d4d0d04262dfd3|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
In 1979, O'Connor left her mother and went to live with her father and his new wife. However, her shoplifting and truancy led to her being placed in a ]<ref name=wp20100325>{{Cite news| url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html?hpid%3Dopinionsbox1%C3%A2%C2%8A%C2%82=AR | work=The Washington Post | title=To Sinead O'Connor, the pope's apology for sex abuse in Ireland seems hollow | date=28 March 2010}}</ref> at age 15, the Grianán Training Centre run by the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity. In some ways, she thrived there, especially in writing and music, but she also chafed under the imposed conformity. Unruly students there were sometimes sent to sleep in the adjoining nursing home, an experience of which she later commented, "I have never — and probably will never — experience such panic and terror and agony over anything."<ref>'']'', April 1988</ref> | |||
== Music career == | |||
One of the volunteers at Grianan was the sister of ], drummer for the band ], who heard O'Connor singing "]" by ]. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
===1980s=== | |||
In 1983, her father sent her to ], an exclusive ] ] in ], an institution with a much more permissive atmosphere than Grianan. With the help and encouragement of her ] teacher, Joseph Falvey, she recorded a four-song demo, with two covers and two of her own songs which later appeared on her first album.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
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One of the volunteers at the Grianán centre was the sister of Paul Byrne, the drummer for the band ], who heard O'Connor singing "]" by ]. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band.<ref>''NME'', 29 October 1988</ref> Through an ad she placed in '']'' in mid-1984, she met ]. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band, Ton Ton Macoute.<ref name="sodifferent" /> The band moved to ] briefly while O'Connor attended ], but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances received positive reviews. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in ], though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence were the band's strongest features.<ref name="sodifferent" /><ref>{{cite book|first=Jimmy |last=Guterman |title='Sinead: Her Life and Music |publisher=Penguin |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-140-14735-3}}</ref>{{page needed|date=August 2023}} | |||
O'Connor's time with Ton Ton Macoute brought her to the attention of the music industry, and she was eventually signed by ]. She also acquired an experienced manager, Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh, former head of ]'s Mother Records. Soon after she was signed, she embarked on her first major assignment, providing the vocals for the song "Heroine", which she co-wrote with the U2 guitarist ] for the ]. Ó Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his views on music and politics, and O'Connor adopted the same habits; she defended the actions of the ] and said U2's music was "bombastic".<ref name="Allmusicbio">{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sinéad-oconnor-mn0000756180/biography|title=Sinéad O'Connor – Artist Biography|last=Ankeny|first=Jason|website=AllMusic|access-date=11 June 2021|archive-date=11 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210611123915/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor-mn0000756180/biography|url-status=live}}</ref> She later retracted her IRA comments saying they were based on nonsense, and that she was "too young to understand the tense situation in ] properly".<ref name="contactmusic">{{cite magazine | title=Sinead O'Connor Takes Back Pro Ira Comments | url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/sinead-oconnor-takes-back-pro-ira-comments | magazine=Contactmusic.com | date=30 September 2005 |access-date=13 February 2013 | archive-date=3 April 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403023813/http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/sinead-oconnor-takes-back-pro-ira-comments |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Through an ad she placed in '']'' in mid-1984, she met ]. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band called ], named for the ]an ]s.<ref name="sodifferent"/> The band moved to Waterford briefly while O'Connor attended Newtown, but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances received positive reviews. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in ], ], and ], though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence was the band's driving force.<ref name="sodifferent"/><ref>], ''Sinead: Her Life and Music'', ], 1991</ref> | |||
=== 1987–1989: ''The Lion and the Cobra'' === | |||
On 10 February 1985, O'Connor's mother was killed in a car accident, which despite their strained relationship devastated her.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} Soon afterward she left the band, which stayed together despite O'Connor's statements to the contrary in later interviews, and moved to London.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
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O'Connor's first album, '']'', was "a sensation" when it was released in 1987 on ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lion-and-the-cobra-r14360 |title=The Lion and the Cobra |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |publisher=AllMusic |access-date=18 March 2012 |archive-date=26 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726083442/http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lion-and-the-cobra-r14360 |url-status=live}}</ref> O'Connor named ], ], ], ], and ] as the artists who influenced her on her debut album.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Gaisne |first=Julien |date=April 2012 |title=Sinead O'Connor interview |magazine=Rolling Stone (French Version) |issue=42 |quote=Q: Qui étaient tes artistes préférés quand tu as commencé? A:Bob Dylan, il l'est probablement toujours. Il y avait aussi David Bowie, Bob Marley, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Pretenders. ''(Translation) Q:Who were your favourite singers when you started? A:Bob Dylan, he probably still is. There were also David Bowie, Bob Marley, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Pretenders.''}}</ref> The single "]" was a ] hit in the United States, and "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" received both college and urban play in a ]ed form that featured ] ]. The song "]" was also released as a single in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, where it reached number 5 on the ] chart.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=5811 |title=De Nederlandse Top 40, week 3, 1988 |work=] |access-date=8 October 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080120160334/http://www.radio538.nl/web/show/id=44685/chartid=5811 |archive-date=20 January 2008}}</ref> | |||
In her first US network television appearance, O'Connor sang "Mandinka" on '']'' in 1988.<ref name="BBC obituary">{{Cite web|date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor obituary: A talent beyond compare |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35031186 |access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and performed "Mandinka" at the ]. She painted the logo of the hip hop group ] on her head to protest the first-ever Best Rap Performance award being conferred off-screen.<ref name=":12">{{cite web |author=McCabe |first=Allyson |date=26 July 2023 |title=When America Met Sinéad O'Connor |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/sinead-oconnor-nothing-compares-grammys.html |website=] |url-status=live |archive-date=1 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801210649/https://www.vulture.com/article/sinead-oconnor-nothing-compares-grammys.html}}</ref> | |||
==Musical career== | |||
=== 1980s === | |||
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In 1989, O'Connor provided guest vocals on the ] album '']'', on the duet "Kingdom of Rain".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.djdmac.com/blog/song-day-the-the-kingdom-rain/|title=Song of the Day: The The "Kingdom of Rain"|first=Alex|last=Deley|website=djdmac.com|date=31 March 2020|accessdate=26 July 2023}}</ref> That same year, she made another foray into cinema, starring in and writing the music for the Northern Irish film '']''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hush-a-bye Baby (1989) |url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a0d5343 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190413031211/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b7a0d5343 |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 April 2019 |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref> | |||
O'Connor's time as singer for Ton Ton Macoute brought her to the attention of the music industry, and she was eventually signed by ]. She also acquired an experienced manager, ], former head of ]'s Mother Records. Soon after she was signed, she embarked on her first major project, providing the vocals for the song "Heroine", which she cowrote with U2's guitarist ] for the ]. O'Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his comments about music and politics, and O'Connor began to adopt the same habits; she defended the actions of the ] and said U2's music was "bombastic".<ref name=Allmusicbio></ref> | |||
=== 1990–1993: ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'' === | |||
Things were contentious in the studio as well. She was paired with veteran producer Mick Glossop, whom she later publicly derided. They had differing visions regarding her debut album and four months of recordings were scrapped. During this time she became ] by her session drummer ] (who went on to drum with the band ]). Thanks largely to O'Ceallaigh's persuasion, the record company allowed O'Connor, 20 years old and by then seven months pregnant, to produce her own album.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
O'Connor's second album, '']'', was released in 1990. It gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews.<ref name=Mikal>{{cite magazine |last=Gilmore |first=Mikal |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sinead-oconnor-the-decades-first-new-superstar-194020/ |title=Sinead O'Connor: The Decade's First New Superstar |magazine=Rolling Stone|date=14 June 1990|access-date=10 March 2022}}</ref> '']'' named it the year's second-best album.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1990 |title=NME's best albums and tracks of 1990 |date=10 October 2016 |work=] |access-date=18 March 2012 |archive-date=8 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208175531/http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/1990-2-1045379 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was praised for her voice and original songs, while being noted for her appearance: trademark shaved head, often angry expression, and sometimes shapeless or unusual clothing.<ref name=Mikal /> Her shaved head has been seen as a statement against traditional views of femininity.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Barkham |first=Patrick |date=20 February 2007 |title=The bald truth |work=] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music |url-status=live |access-date=22 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130831023421/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music |archive-date=31 August 2013}}</ref> | |||
The album featured ] (of ] fame), ] (from ]) and ], her first husband.<ref name=":8">{{Cite news |last=Zaleski |first=Annie |date=27 July 2023 |title='Nothing Compares 2 U is perfect': Sinéad O'Connor's 10 greatest songs |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-o-connor-10-best-songs-nothing-compares-2-u |access-date=27 July 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |author-link=Annie Zaleski |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803022323/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-o-connor-10-best-songs-nothing-compares-2-u |archive-date=3 August 2023}}</ref> It contained her international breakthrough hit "]", a song written by ]<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |date=26 July 2023 |title=È morta Sinéad O'Connor |trans-title=Sinéad O'Connor has died |url=https://www.ilpost.it/2023/07/26/morta-sinead-oconnor/ |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=] |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Walfisz |first=Johnny |date=27 July 2023 |title=Why nothing compares to 'Nothing Compares 2 U' |url=https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/07/27/the-story-behind-sinead-oconnors-nothing-compares-2-u |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=]}}</ref> and originally recorded and released by a side project of his, ].<ref name=":10" /> ], producer for ], remixed the album's next single, "]",<ref name=":8" /> for a 12-inch that was coupled with another song from the LP, "I Am Stretched on Your Grave". Pre-dating but included on ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'', was "Jump in the River", which originally appeared on the ]; the 12-inch version of the single had included a remix featuring performance artist ].<ref>{{Citation |title=Sinéad O'Connor – Jump In The River |date=1988 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/1519401-Sinéad-OConnor-Jump-In-The-River |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Jump in the River – Sinéad O'Connor {{!}} Credits {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/jump-in-the-river-mw0001879040/credits |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
''The Lion and the Cobra'' was not embraced by the pop mainstream on a large-scale basis, but the album did eventually hit ] status and earned a Best Female Rock Vocal Performance ] nomination. The single "]" was a big college radio hit, and "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" received both ] and urban play in a ]ed form that featured ] ]. In her first US network television appearance, O'Connor sang "Mandinka" on '']'' in 1988.<ref>{{cite video | |||
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O'Connor withdrew from a scheduled appearance on the American programme '']'' when she learnt that it was to be hosted by ], who she said was disrespectful to women.<ref>{{cite web |last=Hall |first=Jane |date=10 May 1990 |title=O'Connor Won't Sing on 'SNL' in Protest Over Andrew Dice Clay |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-10-ca-1917-story.html |access-date=14 April 2018 |work=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> In July 1990, O'Connor joined other guests for the former ] member ]' ].<ref>{{cite web | title=Looking back at Roger Waters landmark performance of 'The Wall' in Berlin, 1990 | website=Far Out Magazine | date=21 July 2021 | url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/roger-waters-performance-the-wall-berlin-1990/ | access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> She contributed a cover of "]" to the ] tribute/AIDS fundraising album '']'' produced by the ].<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Farber |first=Jim |date=25 February 2020 |title=Red Hot at 30: how compilations used big music stars to combat Aids |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/25/red-hot-at-30-aids-music |access-date=27 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604193718/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/sep/25/red-hot-at-30-aids-music |archive-date=4 June 2023}}</ref> ''Red Hot + Blue'' was followed by the release of '']'', an album made of ] of ]s and ]s she had listened to while growing up; the album received mixed-to-poor reviews, and was a commercial disappointment in light of the success of her previous work.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=3 October 2022 |title=Quando Sinéad O'Connor strappò la foto del Papa in tv |trans-title=When Sinéad O'Connor tore up the photo of the Pope on TV |url=https://www.ilpost.it/2022/10/03/sinead-oconnor-strappare-foto-papa-abusi-chiesa/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=Il Post |language=it-IT}}</ref> Her take on ]'s "]" was acclaimed as one of the best efforts on the tribute album '']''.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Two Rooms But One Great Songbook |date=23 September 1991 |magazine=]}}</ref>{{Verify source|date=August 2023|reason=needs page number, cannot verify without URL}} | |||
===1990s=== | |||
O'Connor's first two albums (1987's '']'' and 1990's '']'') gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews. She was praised for her voice and her original songs. She was also noted for her appearance: her trademark shaved head, often angry expression, and sometimes shapeless or unusual clothing. | |||
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}} Also in 1990, O'Connor said she would not perform if the ] was played before one of her concerts, saying she felt the American music industry was racist.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web |last=McCabe |first=Allyson |date=2023-07-26 |title=When America Met Sinéad O'Connor |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/sinead-oconnor-nothing-compares-grammys.html |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref> She was attacked as ungrateful and anti-American, and drew criticism from celebrities including the singer ], who threatened to "kick her in the ass".<ref name=":03" /><ref>{{cite news|title=Legislator Urges Boycott Over Sinead's Anthem Ban|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-28-ca-409-story.html|date=28 August 1990|access-date=7 August 2023|work=L.A. Times Archives|agency=Times Wire Services|page=10|archive-date=26 January 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126153957/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-08-28-ca-409-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> When people steamrolled her albums outside the offices of her record company in New York City, O'Connor attended in a wig and sunglasses and gave a television interview pretending to be from Saratoga.<ref name=":9" /> | |||
O'Connor was nominated for four awards at the ] and won for ]. She refused to attend the ceremony or accept her award, and wrote an open letter to the ] criticising the industry for promoting materialistic values over artistic merit.<ref name=":12" /> At the ], she won the ] for ], but did not attend the ceremony. She accepted the Irish IRMA in February 1991.<ref name=":02">{{Cite magazine|last=Sutcliffe|first=Phil|date=5 March 1991|title=Stories|magazine=Q Magazine|volume=55|pages=10}}</ref> | |||
The album ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'' featured ] and ], of ] fame, and contained her international breakthrough hit "]", a song written by ] and originally recorded and released by a side project of his, ]. Aided by a memorable and well received video by ] which consisted almost solely of O'Connor's face as she performed the song, it became a massive international hit, reaching #1 in several countries. In Ireland it hit the top spot in July 1990 and remained there for 11 weeks; it is the eighth most successful single of the decade there. It had similar success in the UK, charting at #1 for 4 weeks, and in Germany (#1 for 11 weeks). In Australia, it reached #1 on the Top 100. It also claimed the #1 spot on the ] chart in the USA. She also received Grammy nominations including Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. She eventually won the Grammy for ], but boycotted the award show.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
O'Connor spent the following months studying ] singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Parnell School of Music. In an interview with '']'', published in May 1993, she reported that the lessons were the only therapy she was receiving, describing Merriman as "the most amazing teacher in the universe".<ref>{{Cite news|title='I fit in here,' Sinéad O'Connor says of her return to Dublin|work=The Guardian|first=Maggie|last=O'Kane|date=3 May 1993}}</ref> | |||
]'s Hank Shocklee remixed the album's next single, "The Emperor's New Clothes," for a 12-inch that was coupled with the ] ] of "I Am Stretched On Your Grave." Pre-dating but included on ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'' was also "Jump in the River," which originally appeared on the ]; the 12-inch version of the single had included a remix featuring ]ist ]. Also in 1990, O'Connor starred in a small independent Irish movie ''Hush-a-Bye Baby'' directed in ] by Margo Harkin.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
In 1992, O'Connor contributed vocals on the songs "Come Talk To Me" and "]" from the album '']'' by ]. | |||
In 1990, she joined many other guests for former ] member ]' ] of '']'' in Berlin. (In 1996, she would guest on '']'', a solo album by ] of Pink Floyd.) In 1991, her take on ]'s "]" was acclaimed as one of the best efforts on the tribute album '']''. | |||
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In 1990, she contributed a cover of "]" to the ] tribute/] fundraising album '']'' produced by the ]. In 1998, she worked again with the Red Hot Organization to co-produce and perform on '']''. ''Red Hot + Blue'' was followed by the release of '']'', an album of ] and ]s that she had listened to while growing up. Also in 1992, she contributed backing vocals on the track "Come Talk To Me", and shared vocals on the single "Blood of Eden" from the studio album '']'' by ]. | |||
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On 3 October 1992, O'Connor appeared on the American television programme '']'' (''SNL'') and staged a protest against the ]. After performing an ] rendition of ]'s 1976 song "]" with new lyrics related to child abuse,<ref>{{Cite news |title=The Night Sinead O'Connor Took on the Pope on 'S.N.L.' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-snl-pope.html |date=26 July 2023 |first=Jon |last=Caramanica |newspaper=New York Times |url-status=live |archive-date=2 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230802025127/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-snl-pope.html}}</ref> she tore up a photograph of ] taken from her mother's bedroom wall eight years earlier,<ref name=":7" /> said "fight the real enemy", and threw the pieces to the floor.<ref name="Kaur-2023">{{Cite news |last=Kaur |first=Anumita |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor called the pope an 'enemy' on SNL. Chaos ensued. |language=en-US |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-death-pope-snl/ |access-date=28 July 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> O'Connor later said she felt the Catholic Church bore some responsibility for the physical, sexual and emotional abuse she had suffered as a child. She said the church had destroyed "entire races of people", and that ] had been abusing children for years. Her protest took place nine years before John Paul II publicly acknowledged ].<ref>{{Cite magazine |last1=Simpson |first1=Janice C. |last2=O'Connor |first2=Sinead |date=1992-11-09 |title=People Need a Short, Sharp Shock: SINEAD O'CONNOR |language=en-US |magazine=] |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,976937,00.html |access-date=2023-07-30 |issn=0040-781X}}</ref> | |||
The protest triggered hundreds of complaints from viewers. It attracted criticism from institutions including the ] and the ], and celebrities including ], ] and ], who mocked the performance on ''SNL'' later that season.<ref name=":7" /><ref name="CBC.ca-20232">{{Cite web |date=26 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer and political activist, dead at 56 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor-obit-1.6918614 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=]}}</ref> Two weeks after her ''SNL'' appearance, O'Connor was booed at the 30th-anniversary tribute concert for ] at ] in New York City before ] came on stage, put his arm around her and offered words of encouragement.<ref name="CBC.ca-20232"/><ref>Ian Inglis. ''Performance and Popular Music: History Place and Time.'' ch. 15: ''The Booing of Sinéad O'Connor: Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York, 16 October 1992'' by Emma Mayhew</ref> In her 2021 memoir, ''],'' O'Connor wrote that she did not regret the protest and that it was more important for her to be a protest singer than a successful pop star.<ref name="Kaur-20232">{{Cite news |last=Kaur |first=Anumita |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor called the pope an 'enemy' on SNL. Chaos ensued. |language=en-US |newspaper=] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-death-pope-snl/ |access-date=28 July 2023 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> '']'' later named O'Connor the most influential woman of 1992 for her protest.<ref name="Wilde-2020">{{Cite magazine |last=Wilde |first=Olivia |date=2020-03-05 |title=Sinead O'Connor: 100 Women of the Year |url=https://time.com/5793721/sinead-o-connor-100-women-of-the-year/ |access-date=2023-07-29 |magazine=] |language=en}}</ref> | |||
Also in 1990, she was criticized after she announced that she would not perform if the ] was played before one of her concerts. ] threatened to "kick her ass".<ref name=Allmusicbio/> After receiving 4 ] nominations she withdrew her name from consideration.<ref name=Allmusicbio/> | |||
=== 1993–2000 === | |||
After spending nine years dividing her time between London and Los Angeles, O'Connor returned to her home town of Dublin in late 1992 to live near her sister and focus on raising her son Jake, then six years old.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} She spent the following months studying ] singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Parnell School of Music. In an interview with '']'' published 3 May 1993 she reported that her singing lessons with Merriman were the only ] she was receiving, describing Merriman as "the most amazing teacher in the universe."<ref>{{Cite news | |||
The 1993 soundtrack to the film '']'' featured O'Connor's "]".<ref name=":8" /> Her more conventional '']'' album (1994) spawned two music videos for the first and second singles, "]" and "Famine", that were nominated for a ].<ref name=Grammy1995>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-06-ca-17089-story.html|title=The 37th Grammy Nominations|page=16|date=6 January 1995|access-date=7 August 2023|work=L.A. Times Archives|archive-date=7 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200407150331/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-06-ca-17089-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Grammy1996>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9601/grammy_noms/grammy_list.html |title=List of Grammy nominees |date=4 January 1996 |access-date=18 June 2010 |work=CNN|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121207073959/http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9601/grammy_noms/grammy_list.html |archive-date=7 December 2012}}</ref> She toured with ] in ], but dropped out when she became pregnant with her second child.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 July 2023 |title=Ierse zangeres Sinéad O'Connor op 56-jarige leeftijd overleden |trans-title=Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56 |last1= Schoofs |first1=Stien |last2=Maerevoet |first2=Ellen |url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2023/07/26/sinead-o-connor/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=] |language=nl-BE}}</ref> In 1997, she released the '']'' ].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Melinda |date=11 July 1998 |title=Sinead O'Connor Starts Anew |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-AkEAAAAMBAJ&q=sinead&pg=PA92 |access-date=7 June 2019 |magazine=Billboard |page=92}}</ref> | |||
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In 1994, she appeared in '']'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who |url=https://mubi.com/films/celebrationthe-music-of-pete-townshend-and-the-who |website=mubi.com |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> also known as ''Daltrey Sings Townshend''. This was a two-night concert at ] produced by ] of ] in celebration of his 50th birthday.<ref>{{Citation |title=Roger Daltrey – A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and the Who Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/a-celebration-the-music-of-pete-townshend-and-the-who-mw0000117799 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> A CD and a VHS video of the concert were issued in 1994, followed by a DVD in 1998.<ref>{{Citation |title=Roger Daltrey – Daltrey Sings Townshend Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/daltrey-sings-townshend-dvd--mw0001288566 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Roger Daltrey – Daltrey Sings Townshend Album Reviews, Songs & More {{!}} AllMusic |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/daltrey-sings-townshend-mw0001733159 |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>]In January 1995, O'Connor appeared on the British late-night television programme '']'' on an episode titled "Ireland: Sex & Celibacy, Church & State".<ref>''The Evening Standard'', 25 January 1995.</ref> She linked abuse in families to the Catholic Church. The discussion included a ] and another representative of the Roman Catholic Church, along with former ] ]. Host ] described the event: "Sinéad came on and argued that abuse in families was coded in by the church because it refused to accept the accounts of women and children."<ref name="AfterDark">{{cite news |date=23 February 2003 |title=The interview: Mary Braid talks to Helena Kennedy QC |newspaper=The Sunday Times |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article885791.ece |url-status=dead |access-date=23 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629123036/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article885791.ece |archive-date=29 June 2011}}</ref> | |||
The 1993 soundtrack to the film '']'' featured "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart," with significant contributions from U2 frontman ]. | |||
In 1996, O'Connor provided guest vocals on '']'', a solo album by ] of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emirecords.co.uk/rickwright/frame.html |title=''Broken China'' by EMI Records |accessdate=17 December 2006 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/19990429110014/http://www.emirecords.co.uk/rickwright/frame.html |archivedate=29 April 1999 |quote=Musicians on the album include guitarists Tim Renwick, Dominic Miller and Steve Bolton, drummer Manu Katche and bassist Pino Palladino. Sinead O'Connor sings on two tracks – Reaching for the Rail and Breakthrough.}}</ref> She made her final feature film appearance in ]'s '']'' in 1997, playing the ].<ref name="industry">{{cite web | last = Byrne | first = Paul | title = Neil Jordan (The Butcher Boy): The Provocative Son | publisher = industrycentral.net | date = 7 December 1999 | url = http://www.industrycentral.net/director_interviews/NJ01.HTM | access-date = 30 August 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100721213638/http://www.industrycentral.net/director_interviews/NJ01.HTM | archive-date = 21 July 2010 | url-status = dead}}</ref> In 1998, she worked again with the Red Hot Organization to co-produce and perform on '']''.<ref>{{Citation |title=Various Artists – Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/red-hot-rhapsody-the-gershwin-groove-mw0000044192 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref> | |||
The more conventional '']'' (1994) did not succeed in restoring her mass appeal.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} She toured with ] in 1995, but dropped out when she became pregnant. The '']'' ] followed in 1997, and featured songs based in an acoustic setting. It too, did not recapture previous album successes.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
===2000s=== | |||
In 1994, she appeared in '']'', also known as ''Daltrey Sings Townshend''. This was a two-night concert at ] produced by ] of ] in celebration of his 50th birthday. A CD and a VHS video of the concert were issued in 1994, followed by a DVD in 1998. | |||
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'']'' was released in 2000, including the single "]", and featured contributions from ] of the ] and ] of ].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/32/music-epstein.shtml |title=LA Weekly review |access-date=27 July 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000824161425/http://www.laweekly.com/ink/00/32/music-epstein.shtml |archive-date=24 August 2000 |last=Epstein |first=Dan |work=]}}</ref> | |||
Her 2002 album, '']'', marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted or, in her own words, "sexed up" ] songs, including several in the Irish language.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Dave | last=Simpson | url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2002/nov/11/artsfeatures.popandrock | title=Sinéad O'Connor (review) | work=] | date=11 November 2002 | access-date=24 October 2006 | archive-date=17 November 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117163301/http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,837569,00.html | url-status=live}}</ref> In ''Sean-Nós Nua'', she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, "]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5942-sean-nos-nua/|title=Sinead O'Connor: Sean-Nós Nua|last=Richardson|first=Mark|website=]|date=15 January 2003|accessdate=27 July 2023|archive-date=1 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130101004703/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5942-sean-nos-nua/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
She appeared in ]'s '']'' in 1997, playing the ].{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
In 2003, she contributed a track to the ] tribute album '']'', a cover of Parton's "Dagger Through the Heart". That same year, she also featured on three songs of ]'s album '']'' before releasing her double album, '']''. This compilation contained one disc of demos and previously unreleased tracks and one disc of a live concert recording. Directly after the album's release, O'Connor announced that she was retiring from music.<ref>{{Cite news | first=Gil | last=Kaufman | url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1471518/04252003/oconnor_sinead.jhtml#/news/articles/1471518/04252003/oconnor_sinead.jhtml | title=Sinéad O'Connor To Retire ... Again. | work=MTV | date=25 April 2003 | access-date=24 October 2006 | archive-date=16 April 2006 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060416152350/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1471518/04252003/oconnor_sinead.jhtml#/news/articles/1471518/04252003/oconnor_sinead.jhtml | url-status=dead}}</ref> '']'', a compilation album of guest appearances, was released in 2005—featuring tracks recorded with Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, ], ], ], ], ], U2, and The The.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sinéad O'Connor – Collaborations Review by Jame Christopher Monger|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/collaborations-mw0000205563 |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=AllMusic |language=en}}</ref> | |||
===2000s=== | |||
'']'' was released in 2000, including the single "No Man's Woman," and featured contributions from ] of the ] and ] of ]. On the eve of its release, O'Connor ] as a ], and then retracted the statement.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
Ultimately, after a brief period of inactivity and a bout with ], her retirement proved to be short-lived. O'Connor stated in an interview with ] that she had only intended to retire from making mainstream pop/rock music, and after dealing with her fibromyalgia she chose to move into other musical styles.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mills |first=Fred |url=http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3538 |title=Sinead O'Connor: Saint Sinead |work=Harp magazine |date=November 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080615030701/http://harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=3538 |archive-date=15 June 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The reggae album '']'' appeared in late 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harvell |first=Jess |date=22 November 2005 |title=Sinéad O'Connor: Throw Down Your Arms |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/5945-throw-down-your-arms/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
Her 2002 album, '']'', marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted or, in her own words, "sexed up" ] songs, including several in the ].<ref>{{Cite news | |||
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</ref> In ''Sean-Nós Nua'', she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, ], interpreted as a song of lesbian, rather than ], love. In her documentary, '']'', she stated that her inspiration for the song was her friend, a lesbian who sang the song to lament the loss of her partner. | |||
On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album '']'' at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rubyworks.myshopify.com/products/sinead-oconnor-live-at-the-sugar-club-dvd |title=Sinéad O'Connor Live At The Sugar Club DVD |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826105710/http://rubyworks.myshopify.com/products/sinead-oconnor-live-at-the-sugar-club-dvd |archive-date=26 August 2011 |access-date=2 September 2011 |website=rubyworks.myshopify.com}}</ref> The performance was released in 2008 as '']'' deluxe CD/DVD package sold exclusively on her website.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sinead "Live At The Sugar Club" CD & DVD |url=https://www.sinead-oconnor.com/home/index.php/whats-new-here/272-sinead-live-at-the-sugar-club |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927052618/https://www.sinead-oconnor.com/home/index.php/whats-new-here/272-sinead-live-at-the-sugar-club |archive-date=27 September 2011 |access-date=26 July 2023 |website=The Sinead O'Connor Site}}</ref> | |||
In 2003, she contributed a track to the ] tribute album '']'', a cover of Parton's "Dagger Through the Heart". That same year, she released a double album, '']''. The album contained one disc of demos and previously unreleased tracks and one disc of a live concert recording. Directly after the album's release, O'Connor announced her ] from music.<ref>{{Cite news | |||
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'']'', a compilation album of guest appearances, was released in 2005 - featuring tracks recorded with Peter Gabriel, ], ], ], ], ], ], U2, and The The. | |||
O'Connor released two songs from her album ''Theology'' to download for free from her official website: "If You Had a Vineyard" and "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)". The album, a collection of covered and original ] spiritual songs, was released in June 2007. The first single from the album, the ] and ] classic "]", was released on 30 April 2007.<ref>{{Cite news | |||
Ultimately, after a brief period of inactivity and a bout with ], her retirement proved to be short-lived - O'Connor stated in an interview with '']'' that she only intended to retire from making mainstream pop/rock music, and after dealing with her fibromyalgia, chose to move into other musical styles.<ref></ref> The ] album '']'' appeared in late 2005 and was greeted with positive reviews. It was based on the ] culture and lifestyle, O'Connor having spent time in ] in 2004. She performed the single "Throw Down Your Arms" on '']'' in November. She also made comments critical of the ] and the role played in it by Ireland's ].{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
| url= http://www.sputnikmusic.com/news.php?newsid=3246 | title=New Sinead O Connor Single | last=de Sylvia | first=Dave | work=Sputnikmusic.com | date=21 April 2007 | access-date=22 April 2007}}</ref> To promote the album, O'Connor toured extensively in Europe and North America. She also appeared on two tracks of the ] album '']'', including the anti-war single "]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muse.ie/music-ireland-music_news-international_news/ian-brown-reveals-fifth-album-details/spId/263CA8D3-01EE-3070-0EA5349BCC2EAB1B.html |title=Ian Brown reveals fifth album details |work=Muse.ie |date=2 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090615201200/http://www.muse.ie/music-ireland-music_news-international_news/ian-brown-reveals-fifth-album-details/spId/263CA8D3-01EE-3070-0EA5349BCC2EAB1B.html |archive-date=15 June 2009}}</ref> | |||
===2010s=== | |||
On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album '']'' at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} The performance was released in 2008 as ] CD/DVD sold exclusively on her website. | |||
In January 2010, O'Connor performed a duet with the R&B singer ] produced by former ] member ] of O'Connor's song "This Is To Mother You" (first recorded by O'Connor on her 1997 ''Gospel Oak'' EP). The proceeds of the song's sales were donated to the organisation GEMS (]).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sinead-oconnor.com/home/index.php/news/289-new-version-of-qthis-is-to-mother-youq-with-sinead-and-mary-j-blige |title=New version of "This Is To Mother You" with Sinéad and Mary J. Blige |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130411084722/http://www.sinead-oconnor.com/home/index.php/news/289-new-version-of-qthis-is-to-mother-youq-with-sinead-and-mary-j-blige |archive-date=11 April 2013 |url-status=live |website=sineadoconnor.com |access-date=3 September 2013}}</ref> In 2012 the song "Lay Your Head Down", written by Brian Byrne and ] for the soundtrack of the film '']'' and performed by O'Connor, was nominated for a ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sinead O'Connor performs at 'Albert Nobbs' soundtrack release party |work=L.A. Times Archives |date=7 January 2012 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/24-frames/story/2012-01-07/sinead-oconnor-performs-at-albert-nobbs-soundtrack-release-party |access-date=27 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230526063218/https://www.latimes.com/archives/blogs/24-frames/story/2012-01-07/sinead-oconnor-performs-at-albert-nobbs-soundtrack-release-party |archive-date=26 May 2023}}</ref> | |||
] In 2011, O'Connor worked on recording a new album, titled ''Home'', to be released in the beginning of 2012,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0826/1224302969258.html |title=Home truths |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024145744/http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/theticket/2011/0826/1224302969258.html |archive-date=24 October 2012 |website=IrishTimes.com |date=8 August 2011 |access-date=2 September 2011}}</ref> titled '']'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sineadoconnor.com/ |title=News page |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229003446/http://www.sineadoconnor.com/ |archive-date=29 December 2011 |url-status=deviated|website=Sinéad O'Connor website}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.ie/news/sineads-feelin-good-just-like-aretha/26786781.html |title=Sinéad's feelin' good just like Aretha |date=29 October 2011 |website=Independent.ie |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728162457/https://www.independent.ie/news/sineads-feelin-good-just-like-aretha/26786781.html |archive-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> with the first single being "The Wolf is Getting Married". She planned an extensive tour in support of the album but suffered a serious breakdown between December 2011 and March 2012,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/news/sinead-oconnor/63418 |title='Very unwell' Sinead O'Connor cancels all touring plans for 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304100343/http://www.nme.com/news/sinead-oconnor/63418 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |work=NME |date=24 April 2012 |access-date=20 December 2012 |last=Bychawski |first=Adam}}</ref> resulting in the tour and all her other musical activities for the rest of 2012 being cancelled. O'Connor resumed touring in 2013 with The Crazy Baldhead Tour. The second single "4th and Vine" was released on 18 February 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sineadoconnor.com/2012/11/crazy-baldhead/ |title=The Crazy Baldhead Toyr |access-date=1 November 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314081505/http://www.sineadoconnor.com/2012/11/crazy-baldhead/ |archive-date=14 March 2013 |website=Sinéad O'Connor website}}</ref> | |||
In February 2014, it was revealed that O'Connor had been recording a new album of original material, titled ''The Vishnu Room'', consisting of romantic love songs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jaredbraden.com/news/1821|title=Sinéad O'Connor Prepping New Studio Album, "The Vishnu Room"|date=19 December 2013 |access-date=1 February 2014|archive-date=30 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140530032115/http://jaredbraden.com/news/1821|url-status=live|website=jaredbraden.com}}</ref> In early June 2014, the new album was retitled '']'', with an 11 August release date. The title derives from the ] campaign that took place earlier the same year. The album's first single is entitled "Take Me to Church".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.refinery29.com/2014/06/68872/sinead-o-connor-new-album|title=Sinéad O'Connor Looks Boss For Her Upcoming Album|date=2 June 2014|archive-date=5 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140605190317/http://www.refinery29.com/2014/06/68872/sinead-o-connor-new-album|url-status=live|website=refinery29.com|last=Zuras|first=Matthew}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sinead-oconnor-renames-new-album-im-not-bossy-im-the-boss-20140602|title=Sinead O'Connor Renames New Album 'I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss'|magazine=]|last=Kreps|first=Daniel|date=2 June 2014|access-date=3 June 2014|archive-date=4 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140604223252/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sinead-oconnor-renames-new-album-im-not-bossy-im-the-boss-20140602|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sinead O'Connor|work=Official Charts|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/24657/sinead-oconnor/|access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
O'Connor released two songs from her album ''Theology'' to download for free from her official website: "If You Had a Vineyard" and "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)". The album, a collection of covered and original Rastafari spiritual songs, was released in June 2007. The first single from the album, the ] and ] classic "]", was released on 30 April 2007.<ref>{{Cite news | |||
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</ref> To promote the album, O'Connor toured extensively in Europe and North America. She also appeared on two tracks of the new ] album '']'', including the anti-war single "]".<ref></ref> | |||
In November 2014, O'Connor's management was taken over by ] and Björn de Water.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Willman |first=Chris |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/6398491/sinead-oconnor-new-manager-simon-napier-bell-snap-b |title=Sinead O'Connor's New Managers Have No Plans to Silence the Singer |magazine=Billboard |date=17 July 2014 |access-date=14 March 2016 |archive-date=3 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160403120241/http://www.billboard.com/articles/6398491/sinead-oconnor-new-manager-simon-napier-bell-snap-b |url-status=live}}</ref> On 15 November, O'Connor joined the charity supergroup ] along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording a new version of the track "]" at ] in ], London, to raise money for the ].<ref>{{cite news|title=Band Aid 30: One Direction among celebrity line-up|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|last=Singh|first=Anita|date=11 November 2014|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11220735/Band-Aid-30-line-up-revealed.html|access-date=15 December 2018|archive-date=20 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150220193058/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/music-news/11220735/Band-Aid-30-line-up-revealed.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
She toured Europe during 2008 and 2009, performing mainly ''Theology'' material in an intimate, acoustic setting. She also performed "]" live for the first time since 1990, along with "Nothing Compares 2 U" and "Dark I Am Yet Lovely" as part of the Night of the Proms concert series in Antwerps, Belgium.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
In 2017, O'Connor changed her legal name to Magda Davitt, saying she wished to be free of "patriarchal slave names" and "parental curses".<ref name="auto" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Loughrey |first=Clarisse |date=12 September 2017 |title=Sinead O'Connor claims abusive mother 'ran a torture chamber' in emotional Dr. Phil interview |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil-interview-mother-emotional-sexual-abuse-suicide-attempts-a7942411.html |url-status=live |access-date=16 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180814041719/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil-interview-mother-emotional-sexual-abuse-suicide-attempts-a7942411.html |archive-date=14 August 2018}}</ref> In September 2019, she performed live for the first time in five years, singing "Nothing Compares 2 U" with the ] on ]'s ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 September 2019 |title=Sinéad O'Connor è tornata, con una grande versione di "Nothing Compares 2 U" |trans-title=Sinéad O'Connor is back, with a great version of "Nothing Compares 2 U" |url=https://www.ilpost.it/flashes/sinead-o-connor-nothing-compares-2-u/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=Il Post |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor sings Nothing Compares 2 U on The Late Late Show in September 2019 |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0727/1074429-sinead-oconnor-melts-hearts-on-late-late-show/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=RTÉ}}</ref> | |||
'']'' was reissued in 2009 with an accompanying bonus disc containing ] and previously unreleased material.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
===2020–2023: Memoir and death of son=== | |||
===2010s=== | |||
O'Connor released a cover of ]'s "Trouble of the World" in October 2020, with proceeds from the single to benefit ] charities.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/entertainment/sinead-o-connor-trouble-of-the-world |title=Sinead O'Connor releases stirring 'Trouble of the World' cover |website=IrishCentral |date=4 October 2020 |access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> O'Connor released the memoir '']'' on 1 June 2021 to positive reviews, listed among the best books of the year on ''BBC Culture''.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Laurence |first1=Rebecca |last2=Baker |first2=Lindsay |title=The best books of the year 2021 |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210409-the-best-books-of-2021-so-far |date=23 December 2021 |access-date=28 May 2023 |work=BBC Culture |language=en}}</ref> The Irish postal service ] released a postage stamp on 15 July 2021 bearing an image of O'Connor singing.<ref>{{cite web |date=15 July 2021 |title=Booklet of 4 National Stamps (Irish Singer Songwriters at Glastonbury) |url=https://www.anpost.com/Shop/Products/Booklet-of-4-National-Stamps-(Irish-at-Glastonbury |website=]}}</ref> | |||
In January 2010, O'Connor performed a duet with R&B singer ] produced by former ] member ] entitled "This Is To Mother You". The proceeds of the song's sales were donated to the organization GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services).<ref>. Planet Ill (2010-01-08). Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref> | |||
O'Connor announced in June 2021 that the album ''No Veteran Dies Alone'' would be her last, and that she was retiring from music.<ref name="IE ret">{{cite news |last=Sunderland |first=Ciarán |date=4 June 2021 |title=Sinéad O'Connor announces retirement from music and touring |work=Irish Examiner |url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40306787.html |url-status=live |access-date=7 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607000621/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40306787.html |archive-date=7 June 2021}}</ref> She retracted the statement days later, describing it as "a knee-jerk reaction" to an insensitive interview, and announced that her scheduled 2022 tour would go ahead.<ref name="irishexam">{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40308401.html|title='I'm gonna keep being fabulous' – Sinead O'Connor retracts retirement announcement|last=Heaney|first=Steven|date=7 June 2021|access-date=7 June 2021|work=Irish Examiner|archive-date=7 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210607221613/https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40308401.html|url-status=live}}</ref> O'Connor's son Shane died by suicide at the age of 17 on 7 January 2022.<ref name="BBC obituary" /> O'Connor canceled her tour and ''No Veteran Dies Alone'' was postponed indefinitely.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aubrey |first=Elizabeth |date=18 June 2022 |title=Sinead O'Connor cancels all gigs in 2022 for 'her own health and well being' |url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/sinead-oconnor-cancels-all-gigs-in-2022-for-her-own-health-and-wellbeing-3250458 |access-date=28 May 2023 |website=] |language=en-GB}}</ref> According to the producer ], by the time of O'Connor's death in 2023, the album was "emotional and really personal" and was complete but for one song.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |date=2023-07-28 |title=Sinéad O'Connor's Final Album Was One Track Away From Completion |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/sinead-oconnor-dead-inside-making-last-album-1234796872/ |access-date=2023-08-08 |magazine=] |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
O'Connor announced she was working with ] and ] on recording a new album, described as "a guitar based electric album (..) with songs about love".<ref></ref> The forthcoming album, entitled ''Home'', will be released in May 2011.<ref></ref> | |||
In February 2023, O'Connor shared a version of "]", a 19th-century Scottish adaptation of a 1782 Gaelic song, which is also the theme for the fantasy drama series '']''.<ref>{{cite news |last= Skinner |first= Tom |date= 15 February 2023 |title= Listen to Sinéad O'Connor's new version of 'Outlander' theme |url= https://www.nme.com/news/music/sinead-oconnor-new-version-of-outlander-theme-the-skye-boat-song-listen-3398949 |work= NME |access-date= 13 April 2023}}</ref> The following month she was awarded the inaugural ] by the Irish broadcaster ] for her 1990 album ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got''.<ref name="cmp" /><ref name="it">{{Cite news |last=Burns |first=Sarah |date=26 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 |language=en |newspaper=The Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/07/26/sinead-oconnor-acclaimed-dublin-singer-dies-aged-56/ |access-date=26 July 2023}}</ref> In September 2023, BBC Television drama series '']'', which focuses on the Irish ], played an unreleased O'Connor song, "The Magdalene Song". The song had been given to the series producers by O'Connor shortly before her death.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/24/unreleased-sinead-oconnor-song-to-play-at-finale-of-church-cruelty-drama|title=Unreleased Sinéad O'Connor song to play at finale of church cruelty drama|website=The Guardian|last=Thorpe|first=Vanessa|date=24 September 2023|access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/sinead-oconnor-unreleased-song-premiere-the-woman-in-the-wall-1234830706/|title=Unreleased Sinead O'Connor Song Premieres in Finale of 'The Woman In the Wall'|magazine=Rolling Stone|last=Rizzo|first=Carita|date=25 September 2023|access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref> | |||
==Notable appearances== | |||
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== Personal life == | |||
On 3 October 1992, O'Connor appeared on '']'' as a ]. She sang an ] version of ]'s "]", which she intended as a protest over the ] in the ], by changing the lyric "racism" to "child abuse."<ref name="salon"> | |||
=== Marriages and children === | |||
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O'Connor's first son, Jake, was born on 16 June 1987. His father was the music producer ],<ref name="biography.com" /> who co-produced several of O'Connor's albums, including ''Universal Mother''. O'Connor married Reynolds at ] in March 1989.<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 March 1989 |title=Rocker Sinead is wed |pages=3 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/3Oyz59tYleIq |access-date=27 July 2023|via=]}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sinead-oconnor-says-lost-job-7992072|title=Sinead O'Connor says she has 'lost it all – job, family, home' after suicide alert|last=Retter|first=Emily|date=17 May 2016|work=Mirror|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=30 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730082345/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/sinead-oconnor-says-lost-job-7992072|url-status=live}}</ref> She had an abortion the same year, and later wrote the song "My Special Child" about the experience.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/featured/sinead-oconnor-interview-spin-30-cover-story/|title=Sinéad O'Connor: SPIN's 1991 Cover Story, 'Special Child'|last=Guccione Jr.|first=Bob|date=18 September 2015|access-date=22 May 2019|archive-date=25 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190525003305/https://www.spin.com/featured/sinead-oconnor-interview-spin-30-cover-story/|url-status=dead |work=]}}</ref> The couple announced their plan to divorce in November 1991 after having been separated for some time.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 November 1991 |title=Sinead takes divorce option |pages=5 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/3f6qsyBZEVmx |access-date=27 July 2023|via=]}}</ref> | |||
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In September 1995, O'Connor announced that she was pregnant by her friend, the Irish columnist ].<ref name="McAdam 1">{{Cite news |last=McAdam |first=Noel |date=14 September 1995 |title=We're friends not lovers: Sinead |pages=1 |work=] |url=https://prnt.sc/uSZgGwC8yq40 |via=] |url-status=live |archive-date=11 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811200335/https://prnt.sc/uSZgGwC8yq40}}</ref> Their daughter, Brigidine Roisin Waters, generally known as Roisin, was born on 6 March 1996.<ref name="SOC_Ch_RSVP">{{Cite news |last=Ward |first=Shauna Bannon |date=27 July 2023 |title=Inside Sinead O'Connor's romances: Fathers of four children, custody battle and break-ups |url=https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/inside-sinead-oconnors-romances-fathers-30570331 |access-date=3 August 2023 |work=RSVP Live |language=en}}</ref> Soon after the birth, the pair began a long custody battle that ended in 1999 with O'Connor agreeing to let Roisin live with Waters in Dublin.<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 March 1996 |title=Daughter born to Sinead O'Connor |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/daughter-born-to-sinead-o-connor-1.34063 |access-date=3 March 2023 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230307221823/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/daughter-born-to-sinead-o-connor-1.34063 |archive-date=7 March 2023}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name="biography.com">{{cite web| url=http://www.biography.com/people/sinead-oconnor-9542316| title=Sinead O'Connor Biography: Songwriter, Singer (1966–)| publisher=] (] / ]) | access-date= 29 November 2015|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20151110155902/http://www.biography.com/people/sinead-oconnor-9542316 | archive-date=10 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
''Saturday Night Live'' had no foreknowledge of O'Connor's plan; during the dress rehearsal she held up a photo of a refugee child. NBC Vice President of Late Night Rick Ludwin recalled that when he saw O'Connor's action he "literally jumped out of chair." ''SNL'' writer Paula Pell recalled personnel in the ] discussing the cameras cutting away from the singer.{{r|snlbackstage20110220}} The audience was completely silent, with no booing or applause;{{r|hj19921006}} executive producer ] recalled that "the air went out the studio". Michaels, who ordered that the ] not be used, described the incident as "on a certain level, a betrayal", but also "a serious expression of belief."{{r|snlbackstage20110220}} | |||
In August 2001, O'Connor married the British journalist Nick Sommerlad in Wales. Their marriage ended after 11 months, in July 2002, when they mutually agreed to part.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/sinead-o-connor-husbands-married |title=Sinead O'Connor's husbands: Who has the Irish singer been married to? |last=Farrell |first=Paul |date=8 December 2018 |website=Irish Central |access-date=23 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181209114633/https://www.irishcentral.com/news/sinead-o-connor-husbands-married |archive-date=9 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="biography.com" /> By February 2003, the marriage was reportedly over and Sommerlad had moved back home to the United Kingdom.<ref name="Nolan 1" /> O'Connor gave birth to her third child, son Shane, on 10 March 2004; his father was the Irish musician ].<ref name="biography.com" /><ref name=":0" /> Her fourth child, son Yeshua, was born on 19 December 2006, fathered by Frank Bonadio.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://celebritybabies.people.com/2006/12/28/sinead_oconnor_/| title=Sinéad O'Connor welcomes fourth child| work=] | date= 28 December 2006| access-date= 30 November 2015| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150908000104/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2006/12/28/sinead_oconnor_/ | archive-date=8 September 2015 | url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url = http://celebritybabies.people.com/2007/01/05/introducing_yes/ | title=Introducing Yeshua Francis Neil Bonadio|date=5 January 2007| access-date= 30 November 2015| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140512232149/http://celebritybabies.people.com/2007/01/05/introducing_yes/ | archive-date= 12 May 2014| url-status=dead |work=]}}</ref> The pair remained on good terms after separating in early 2007.<ref name="SOC_Ch_RSVP" /> | |||
A nationwide audience saw O'Connor's live performance, which the '']''{{'}}s cover called a "HOLY TERROR".<ref name="snlbackstage20110220">{{cite episode | title=Saturday Night Live Backstage | network=NBC | airdate=2011-02-20}}</ref> NBC received more than 500 calls on Sunday<ref name="sr19921005">{{cite news | url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jlxWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HvADAAAAIBAJ&dq=sinead-o-connor%20saturday-night-live%20pope&pg=3641%2C4197661 | title=Singer rips pope, shocks audience | accessdate=March 11, 2011 | date=1992-10-05 | publisher=The Spokesman-Review | pages=A4}}</ref> and 400 more on Monday, with all but seven criticizing O'Connor;<ref name="hj19921006">{{cite news | url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OjkfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A88EAAAAIBAJ&dq=sinead-o-connor%20saturday-night-live%20pope&pg=5336%2C1491113 | title=Sinead calls still coming in | accessdate=March 11, 2011 | date=1992-10-06 | publisher=Spartanburg Herald-Journal | pages=A2}}</ref> the network received 4,400 calls in total.<ref name="hinckley20050314">{{cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/2005/03/14/2005-03-14_sentiments_of_the_moment__th.html | title=SENTIMENTS OF THE MOMENT. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SINEAD O'CONNOR, 1992 | accessdate=March 11, 2011 | author=Hinckley, David | date=2005-03-14 | publisher=New York Daily News}}</ref> Contrary to rumor, NBC was not fined by the ] for O'Connor's act; the FCC has no regulatory power over blasphemy.{{r|hinckley20050314}} NBC did not edit the performance out of the West coast tape-delayed broadcast that night,<ref name="ap19921006">{{cite news | url=http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1SsbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KkgEAAAAIBAJ&dq=sinead-o-connor%20saturday-night-live%20pope&pg=6761%2C1191830 | title=O'Connor draws criticism, pity | accessdate=March 11, 2011 | date=1992-10-06 | publisher=Associated Press}}</ref> but reruns of the episode use footage from the dress rehearsal.{{r|hinckley20050314}} On 24 April 2010, MSNBC aired the live version during an interview with O'Connor on '']''. The live episode is available on volume four of the ''SNL'' DVD special ''Saturday Night Live – 25 Years of Music,'' with an introduction by Michaels about the incident.{{citation needed|date=November 2010}} | |||
O'Connor was married a third time on 22 July 2010, to her longtime friend and collaborator ].<ref name=":2">{{cite news |url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0723/oconnors.html |title=Sinéad O'Connor marries for third time |date=23 July 2010 |work=RTÉ ten |publisher=] |access-date=22 July 2010 |archive-date=23 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100723131933/http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0723/oconnors.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/its-third-time-unlucky-for-sinead-as-she-ends-marriage-2619391.html |title= It's third time unlucky for Sinead as she ends marriage |last=Sweeney |first=Ken |date= 14 April 2011 |website=Independent.ie |archive-date= 2 November 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121102061804/http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/its-third-time-unlucky-for-sinead-as-she-ends-marriage-2619391.html |url-status= dead}}</ref> They separated in March 2011.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Sinead-OConnors-third-marriage-breaks-up--119833684.html |title= Sinead O'Connor's third marriage breaks up |date= 14 April 2011 |access-date= 7 December 2011 |archive-date= 2 February 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120202233918/http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Sinead-OConnors-third-marriage-breaks-up--119833684.html |url-status= live |website=Irish Central |last=Dervan |first=Cathal}}</ref> She was married a fourth time on 9 December 2011, to the Irish therapist Barry Herridge; they wed in Las Vegas and the marriage ended after they had "lived together for 7 days only".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sineadoconnor.com/ |title=Sinéad O'Connor |type=official website |website=sineadoconnor.com |date=26 December 2011 |access-date=26 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111229003446/http://www.sineadoconnor.com/ |archive-date=29 December 2011}}</ref> On 3 January 2012, O'Connor said that she and Herridge had reunited.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web | url = http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/nothing-compares-to-you-after-all-sinead-orsquoconnor-reunites-with-4th-husband-of-16-days-2979887.html | title = Nothing compares to you after all: Sinead O'Connor reunites with 4th husband of 16 days | website = Independent.ie | date = 4 January 2012 | access-date = 5 January 2012 | archive-date = 8 January 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120108091027/http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/nothing-compares-to-you-after-all-sinead-orsquoconnor-reunites-with-4th-husband-of-16-days-2979887.html | url-status = dead}}</ref> In February 2014, she stated that they had not divorced and were planning to renew their wedding vows, but two weeks later they decided not to do so.<ref name="independent.ie" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamilton |first=Sam |date=2 March 2014 |title=Sinead O'Connor scraps plans to renew wedding vows with husband Barry Herridge |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/sinead-oconnor-not-renew-wedding-3199599 |access-date=30 July 2023 |website=Irish Mirror |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=21 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171121091942/https://www.irishmirror.ie/showbiz/irish-showbiz/sinead-oconnor-not-renew-wedding-3199599}}</ref> O'Connor's first grandson was born on 18 July 2015, to her son Jake and his girlfriend.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sinead-oconnor-becomes-grandmother-after-her-son-jake-reynolds-welcomes-baby-boy-1511477 |title=Sinead O'Connor becomes a grandmother after her son Jake Reynolds welcomes a baby boy |website=International Business Times |date=18 July 2015 |access-date=14 March 2016 |archive-date=14 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314224312/http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sinead-oconnor-becomes-grandmother-after-her-son-jake-reynolds-welcomes-baby-boy-1511477 |url-status=live |last=Owoseje |first=Toyin}}</ref> | |||
As part of ''SNL'''s apology to the audience, during his opening monologue the following week, host ] held up the photo, explaining that he had taped it back together, which gained applause. Pesci also said that if it had been his show, "I would have gave her such a smack."<ref></ref> On the ]/] episode that followed the Joe Pesci episode, former cast member ] cameoed as O'Connor and tried to apologize for her actions, which also spoofed Irish stereotypes such as beer festivals and ]s. This was not O'Connor's first dispute with ''Saturday Night Live''; earlier she had refused to appear on a show hosted by "]" comedian ].{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} Rather, she had agreed to appear on a later episode hosted by ]. | |||
O'Connor's 17-year-old son Shane was found dead from ] in January 2022.<ref name="Guardian-8Jan22">{{cite news |last=Skopeliti |first=Clea |date=8 January 2022 |title=Son of Sinéad O'Connor dies at age of 17 after going missing |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/08/son-of-sinead-oconnor-dies-at-age-of-17-after-going-missing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326060508/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/08/son-of-sinead-oconnor-dies-at-age-of-17-after-going-missing |archive-date=26 March 2022 |work=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Holland |first= Kitty |date= 10 January 2022 |title= Death of Sinéad O'Connor's son referred to NRP for investigation |url= https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/death-of-sinead-o-connor-s-son-referred-to-nrp-for-investigation-1.4772479 |newspaper= The Irish Times |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-date=10 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210024345/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/death-of-sinead-o-connor-s-son-referred-to-nrp-for-investigation-1.4772479}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{cite news |last= Harrison |first= Ellie |date= 28 July 2023 |title= Sinead O'Connor shared heartbreaking post about her son Shane days before she died |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-son-shane-death-suicide-b2383503.html |work= The Independent |access-date= 5 August 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=1 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801083016/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-son-shane-death-suicide-b2383503.html}}</ref> O'Connor, who had lost custody of Shane in 2013, said he had recently been on ] at ].<ref name=":1" /> She criticised the ] (HSE) for their handling of her son's case.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Guardian_220109">{{cite news |last=Khomami |first=Nadia |title=Sinéad O'Connor criticises Irish authorities after death of son Shane |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/09/sinead-oconnor-criticises-irish-authorities-after-death-of-son-shane |access-date=10 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=9 January 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010051357/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/09/sinead-oconnor-criticises-irish-authorities-after-death-of-son-shane |archive-date=10 October 2022}}</ref> A week after her son's death, O'Connor admitted herself to a hospital to receive help for her own mental health struggles.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-hospital-intl-scli/index.html |title = Sinead O'Connor hospitalized, days after teenage son's death |website=] |date=14 January 2022 |last=Owoseje |first=Toyin |url-status=live |archive-date=1 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230201104642/https://edition.cnn.com/2022/01/14/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-hospital-intl-scli/index.html}}</ref> | |||
In 1997 O'Connor called her ''SNL'' performance "a ridiculous act, the gesture of a girl rebel", and said that she was "in rebellion against the faith, but still within the faith".{{r|hinckley20050314}} In a 2002 interview with Salon, however, when asked if she would change anything about the ''SNL'' appearance, O'Connor replied, "Hell, no!"<ref></ref> In 2010, ] listed the incident at #24 on their list of ''25 Biggest TV Blunders''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20100302tvguide01|title=Breaking News - TV Guide Network's "25 Biggest TV Blunders" Special Delivers 3.3 Million Viewers|date=2010-03-02|publisher=thefutoncritic.com|accessdate=2010-03-10}}</ref> | |||
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===Other relationships=== | ||
O'Connor stated that she had a relationship with her manager Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh immediately after her marriage to John Reynolds and during the tour of ]. The extra-conjugal relationship ended in 1989 when O'Connor discovered that Ceallaigh was secretly having an affair with another woman. This experience is reflected in O'Connor's song ].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-07 |title=Behind The Music (2001) |website=] |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pp6P3EYZg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220607232020/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-pp6P3EYZg |url-status=dead |archive-date=2022-06-07 |access-date=2024-11-05 }}</ref> | |||
On ]'s next appearance on ''SNL'' (on an episode hosted by ]), after singing "]", she held up a photo of ]<ref>http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20110255,00.html</ref> and, saying "fight the real enemy," tore it up. Madonna also roundly attacked O'Connor in the press for the incident, telling the Irish Times: "I think there is a better way to present her ideas rather than ripping up an image that means a lot to other people." She added, "If she is against the Roman Catholic Church and she has a problem with them, I think she should talk about it."<ref name="Pareles">{{Cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/01/arts/pop-view-why-sinead-o-connor-hit-a-nerve.html | work=The New York Times | title=POP VIEW; Why Sinead O'Connor Hit a Nerve | first=Jon | last=Pareles | date=1 November 1992}}</ref> The New York Times called it "professional jealousy" and wrote that: "After Madonna had herself gowned, harnessed, strapped down and fully stripped to promote her album ''Erotica'' and her book ''Sex'', O'Connor stole the spotlight with one photograph of a fully clothed man. But the other vilification that descended on O'Connor showed she had struck a nerve."<ref>. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref> ] in a 1993 SPIN editorial was adamant in his defense of O'Connor, writing, "...Madonna savaged her in the press, obviously to fuel publicity for ''Sex'' and sales of her new album, ''Erotica'' .... But when the Sinead controversy threatened to siphon some of the attention from the impending release of ''Sex'', Madonna conveniently found religion again..."<ref name="Pareles"/> | |||
In November 1991, a year prior to the incident, O'Connor had told Spin Magazine: "Madonna is probably the hugest role model for women in America. There's a woman who people look up to as being a woman who campaigns for women's rights. A woman who in an abusive way towards me, said that I look like I had a run in with a lawnmower and that I was about as sexy as a Venetian blind. Now there's the woman that America looks up to as being a campaigner for women, slagging off another woman..."<ref>. Books.google.com. Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref> | |||
] of the ] claimed he had a relationship with O'Connor in 1990 and wrote the song "]" about the experience.<ref name=":11">{{Cite web |date=20 November 2021 |title=The Red Hot Chili Peppers song Anthony Kiedis wrote about Sinead O'Connor |last=Taysom |first=Joe |url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-red-hot-chili-peppers-song-anthony-kiedis-sinead-oconnor/ |access-date=29 July 2023 |website=faroutmagazine.co.uk |language=en-US |url-status=live |archive-date=28 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328172012/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-red-hot-chili-peppers-song-anthony-kiedis-sinead-oconnor/}}</ref> O'Connor denied this, saying "I never had a relationship with him, ever. I hung out with him a few times and the row we had was because he suggested we might become involved. I don't give a shit about the song he wrote."<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 July 2012 |title=Sinéad: I was never red hot for Chili Peppers frontman |url=https://www.independent.ie/life/sinead-i-was-never-red-hot-for-chili-peppers-frontman/26870977.html |access-date=30 July 2023 |website=Independent.ie |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=30 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230730223109/https://www.independent.ie/life/sinead-i-was-never-red-hot-for-chili-peppers-frontman/26870977.html}}</ref> | |||
=== Bob Dylan tribute performance === | |||
Two weeks after the ''Saturday Night Live'' appearance, she was set to perform "I Believe in You" at the ] 30th Anniversary tribute concert in ].<ref>Ian Inglis. ''Performance and Popular Music: History Place and Time.'' ch. 15: ''The Booing of Sinéad O'Connor: Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert, Madison Square Garden, New York, 16 October 1992'' by Emma Mayhew</ref> She was greeted by a thundering mixture of cheers and jeers. During the booing, ] told her not to "let the bastards get you down," to which she replied, "I'm not down." The noise eventually became so loud that O'Connor saw no point in starting the scheduled song. She called for the keyboard player to stop and the microphone to be turned up, and then screamed over the audience with an improvised, shouted rendition of "War". This time, she sang the song, stopping just after the part in which the lyrics talk about child abuse, emphasizing the point of her previous action. She then looked straight to the audience for a second and left the stage. Kristofferson then comforted her, as she cried.<ref>{{cite video | |||
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Between 1992 and 1993, O'Connor had an affair with British singer ], whom she accompanied on his ]<ref name="Zindler1999">{{cite web |last=Zindler |first=Bernd |date=Autumn 1999 |title=Peter Gabriel Secret World Tour |url=https://www.genesis-news.com/c-Peter-Gabriel-Secret-World-Tour-19931994-Tour-report-s233.html |access-date=3 April 2022 |website=Genesis News}}</ref> in May 1993 and at the ] in September. In October 1993, Sinéad O'Connor, ], admitted to having attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills as a reaction to Peter Gabriel's refusal to make their relationship permanent. This experience inspired her to write ].<ref>{{cite news |last=Morse |first=Steve |date=20 June 1997 |title=Sinead O'Connor shows gentle side |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1997/06/20/sinead-o-connor-shows-gentler-side/ |access-date=3 April 2022 |newspaper=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=O'Connor |first=Sinéad |title=] |publisher=] |year=2021}}</ref> | |||
=== Garden State Arts Center performance === | |||
On 24 August 1990, O'Connor was scheduled to perform at the then-] in ]. The practice of the venue was to play a recording of the ] before the show began. O'Connor, who said she was unaware of this practice until shortly before the show was to begin, refused to go on if the anthem was played. Venue officials acquiesced to her demand and omitted the anthem, and so O'Connor performed, but they later permanently banned{{Request quotation|date=April 2011}} her. | |||
In 2014, O'Connor said she "didn't get on at all" with ], the writer of "Nothing Compares 2 U". According to O'Connor, Prince demanded she visit him at his home and then chastised her for swearing in interviews, so she told him to "fuck off", at which point Prince became violent and she fled.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kelly |first=Aoife |date=18 November 2014 |title='I told him to f*** off' – Sinead O'Connor reveals she had punch-up with Prince |url=https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/i-told-him-to-f-off-sinead-oconnor-reveals-she-had-punch-up-with-prince/30753189.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129052255/http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/i-told-him-to-f-off-sinead-oconnor-reveals-she-had-punchup-with-prince-30753189.html |archive-date=29 November 2014 |access-date=18 November 2014 |website=Independent.ie}}</ref> In her memoir, O'Connor gave some details of Prince's behaviour, which ranged from having his butler serve up soup despite her repeatedly refusing it, to suggesting a pillow fight and then hitting her with a hard object placed in a pillowcase, and stalking her with his car after she had left the mansion.<ref name=":7">{{Cite news |last=Hess |first=Amanda |date=18 May 2021 |title=Sinead O'Connor Remembers Things Differently |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html |url-status=live |access-date=19 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519102008/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/arts/music/sinead-oconnor-rememberings.html |archive-date=19 May 2021}}</ref> | |||
O'Connor said that she had a policy of not having the national anthem of any country played before her concerts, explaining that these were often written and composed during wars and amounted to nationalist tirades. She pointed out that she meant "no disrespect," but added that she "will not go on stage after the national anthem of a country which imposes ] on artists. It's hypocritical and ]." | |||
===Homes=== | |||
The incident made tabloid headlines, and O'Connor drew tabloid-derived criticism. Her songs were banned from some radio stations. | |||
In 2007, O'Connor bought a large Victorian seafront house in ], near Dublin.<ref name="Bray People - Galvin - SOC">{{cite news |last=Galvin |first=Tom |title=Bray will get Sinéad O'Connor memorial, but house could become apartment block |url=https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/bray-news/bray-will-get-sinead-oconnor-memorial-but-house-could-become-apartment-block/a951852580.html |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=The Bray People |date=28 July 2023 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=7 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807002254/https://www.independent.ie/regionals/wicklow/bray-news/bray-will-get-sinead-oconnor-memorial-but-house-could-become-apartment-block/a951852580.html}}</ref> She sold the property in 2021, after moving temporarily to her holiday home.<ref name="RSVP - Paor - SOC">{{cite news |last=Paor |first=Blathin de |title=Sinead O'Connor asks fans if anyone wants to buy her home as she puts it on sale |url=https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/sinead-oconnor-asks-fans-anyone-23757810 |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=RSVP Live |date=19 March 2021 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=25 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525232806/https://www.rsvplive.ie/news/celebs/sinead-oconnor-asks-fans-anyone-23757810}}</ref> She later lived at a house in the Kilglass/Scramogue area, between ] and ], ],<ref name="Shannonside - SOC">{{cite news |title=Sinead O'Connor found peace in rural Roscommon says local Senator |url=https://www.shannonside.ie/news/sinead-oconnor-found-peace-in-rural-roscommon-says-local-senator-227287 |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=Shannonside News |date=27 July 2023 |language=en |url-status=live |archive-date=1 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230801093033/https://www.shannonside.ie/news/sinead-oconnor-found-peace-in-rural-roscommon-says-local-senator-227287}}</ref> and on the main street of ], County Wicklow, which she sold in 2022.<ref name="NYT_230727_O'C_Wklw_home">{{Cite news |last=Specia |first=Megan |date=2023-07-27 |title=The Tiny Irish Village Where Sinéad O'Connor Escaped the World |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/world/europe/sinead-oconnor-irish-village.html |access-date=2023-08-01 |issn=0362-4331 |url-status=live |archive-date=29 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230729231419/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/world/europe/sinead-oconnor-irish-village.html}}</ref> She later also had a home in ], a south-east suburb of Dublin.<ref name="Guardian - 28th Jul 23 - SOC">{{cite news |last=Carroll |first=Rory |title='She found peace here': local people tell of Sinéad O'Connor's last years in Ireland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/28/sinead-oconnor-ireland-bray-tribute |work=The Guardian |date=28 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=7 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807050835/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/28/sinead-oconnor-ireland-bray-tribute}}</ref> In early 2023, she moved to a flat in London to feel "less lonely", and said she would soon finish her new album.<ref name="Irish Mirror - London - SOC">{{cite news |last=O'Hare |first=Mia |title=Sinéad O'Connor moved to London to feel 'less lonely' weeks before her death |url=https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/sinad-oconnor-moved-london-less-30575796 |access-date=1 August 2023 |work=Irish Mirror |date=28 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> | |||
===Sexuality=== | |||
=== ''After Dark'' appearance === | |||
In a 2000 interview in '']'', O'Connor said that she was a lesbian.<ref>{{Cite news |work=Curve |url=https://www.curvemag.com/blog/interviews/curves-20th-anniversary-retrospective-sinad-oconnor/| title=Curve's 20th Anniversary Retrospective: Sinéad O'Connor |date=1 February 2010 |last=Anderson-Minshall |first=Diane |url-status=live |archive-date=7 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807152943/https://www.curvemag.com/blog/interviews/curves-20th-anniversary-retrospective-sinad-oconnor/}}</ref> She later retracted the statement, and in 2005 told '']'' "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay".<ref>{{cite news |last=Sinha-Roy |first=Piya |editor=Tourtellotte, Bob |title=Sinead O'Connor reveals sexual frustration on Web |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-59078220110831 |access-date=26 July 2023 |work=Reuters |date=31 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728044718/https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-59078220110831 |archive-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
]'' on 21 January 1995]] | |||
In January 1995 O'Connor "was so interested in a (television) discussion about abuse and the Catholic church that she rang in to ask if she could appear. They sent a taxi to her home".<ref>'All night long', ''Radio Times'', 15 March 2003</ref> The '']'' wrote that ''] ''"made a brief reappearance last Saturday night when, true to its unpredictable form, Sinéad O'Connor walked on to the set 10 minutes before closedown".<ref>''The Evening Standard'', 25 January 1995</ref> Host ] described the event: | |||
In 2013, O'Connor published an open letter on her own website to American singer and actress ] in which she warned Cyrus of the treatment of women in the music industry and stated that sexuality is a factor in this, which was in response to Cyrus's music video for her song "]".<ref>{{cite web |last=O'Connor |first=Sinead |date=2 October 2013 |title=Open Letter to Miley Cyrus |url=http://www.sineadoconnor.com/2013/10/open-letter-to-miley-cyrus/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004232603/http://www.sineadoconnor.com/2013/10/open-letter-to-miley-cyrus/ |archive-date=4 October 2013 |work=Official Website}}</ref> Cyrus responded by mocking O'Connor and alluding to her mental health problems.<ref>{{cite web |last= |first= |date=4 October 2013 |title=Miley Cyrus and Sinead O'Connor row escalates|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24395755 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221121212002/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24395755 |archive-date=21 November 2022 |work=BBC News |access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> After O'Connor's death, Cyrus publicly apologised for her behaviour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-08-25 |title=Miley Cyrus Reflects on Sinéad O'Connor "Wrecking Ball" Dispute in New TV Special |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/miley-cyrus-reflects-on-sinead-oconnor-wrecking-ball-dispute-in-new-tv-special/ |access-date=2023-08-26 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
::''On that occasion, former ], ], was sharing the sofas with a Dominican monk and a representative of the Catholic church. “While we were on the air, Sinéad O’Connor called in,”'' says Kennedy. ''“Then I got a message in my earpiece to say she had just turned up at the studio. Sinéad came on and argued that abuse in families was coded in by the church because it refused to accept the accounts of women and children,” says Kennedy.<ref>'Baroness goes back to the twilight zone', ''The Sunday Times'', 23 February 2003'' </ref> | |||
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===Politics=== | ||
O'Connor was a vocal supporter of a ], and called on the left-wing republican ] party to be "braver".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6451131/sinead-oconnor-sinn-fein-irish-republican-party-ireland-partition|title=Sinead O'Connor Won't Be Joining Irish Republican Party – Here's Why|magazine=Billboard|first=Chris|last=Payne|date=28 January 2015|access-date=16 May 2018|archive-date=13 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181213105211/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6451131/sinead-oconnor-sinn-fein-irish-republican-party-ireland-partition|url-status=live}}</ref> O'Connor called for the "demolition" of the ] and its replacement with a new, united country. She also called for key Sinn Féin politicians like ] to step down because "they remind people of violence", referring to ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sinead-oconnor-calls-for-demolition-of-the-irish-republic-and-the-birth-of-a-new-country-9922692.html|title=Sinead O'Connor calls for 'demolition of the Irish Republic' and the birth of a new country|website=The Independent|first=Kiran|last=Moodley|date=16 December 2014|access-date=16 May 2018|archive-date=28 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128011637/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/sinead-oconnor-calls-for-demolition-of-the-irish-republic-and-the-birth-of-a-new-country-9922692.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
While she initially chose her bald look as a statement against the traditional view of women, years later, O'Connor said she had tried to grow her hair back; after being asked if she was ], O'Connor shaved it off again. "I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Barkham, Patrick|title=The Bald Truth|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/20/gender.music|work=] |publisher= |date=2007-02-20 |accessdate=2010-03-22 | location=London}}</ref> | |||
In 2014, she ] as an act of protest against what she thought was unjust treatment of Palestinians, stating that "Let's just say that, on a human level, nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight".<ref>{{cite news |title=Sinead O'Connor's Muslim identity missing in obituaries, some fans say |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/27/sinead-oconnors-muslim-identity-missing-in-obituaries-some-fans-say |work=Al Jazeera |date=27 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
===Romantic and family life=== | |||
She has been married three times. Her first marriage was to music producer ], who co-produced several of her albums, including ''Universal Mother''. They have one child together. They split up on good terms and continue to work together. Her second marriage was to journalist Nicholas Sommerlad in 2002. O'Connor married long time friend and collaborator Steve Cooney on 22 July 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0723/oconnors.html |title=Sinéad O'Connor marries for third time |author= |date=23 July 2010 |work=RTÉ ten |publisher=] |accessdate=22 July 2010}}</ref> O'Connor acknowledged to Paul Martin in the '']'' that the two had separated as of the weekend of 17 February 2007, citing difficulties between Bonadio and his former wife, singer ]. | |||
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/independent-woman/celebrity-news-gossip/its-third-time-unlucky-for-sinead-as-she-ends-marriage-2619391.html |title=It's third time unlucky for Sinead as she ends marriage |author= |date=11 April 2011 |accessdate=11 April 2011}}</ref> | |||
In a 2015 interview with the ], O'Connor said she wished that Ireland had remained under British rule (which ended after the ], except for ]), saying "the church took over and it was disastrous".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sinead-oconnor-i-wish-england-had-never-left-ireland-the-church-took-over-and-it-was-disastrous-31063731.html|title=Sinead O'Connor: 'I wish England had never left Ireland... the church took over and it was disastrous'|website=Independent.ie|date=13 March 2015|last=Kelleher|first=Lynne|access-date=16 May 2018|archive-date=16 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116085149/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/sinead-oconnor-i-wish-england-had-never-left-ireland-the-church-took-over-and-it-was-disastrous-31063731.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the ] in 2016, O'Connor wrote on Facebook "Ireland is officially no longer owned by Britain".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/sinead-oconnor-is-alive-and-celebrating-irelands-brexit-freedom/|title=Sinead O'Connor celebrates Ireland's Brexit 'freedom' in furious Facebook post|date=24 June 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=16 May 2018|archive-date=17 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117064058/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/sinead-oconnor-is-alive-and-celebrating-irelands-brexit-freedom/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
She has four children: a son, Jake Reynolds, by her first husband; a daughter, Brigidine Róisíne Waters, born 6 March 1996, by '']'' columnist ]; another son, Shane, born 10 March 2004, whose father is Irish folk musician and record producer ]; and her fourth child, Yeshua Francis Neil, born on 19 December 2006 whose father is her former partner Frank Bonadio.{{Citation needed|date=April 2011}} | |||
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===Religion=== | ||
In contradiction with ], O'Connor was ordained in 1999 by ], bishop of an ].<ref name="O'Connor becomes a 'priest'">{{Cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/328709.stm | title=O'Connor becomes a 'priest' | work=BBC News | date=4 May 1999 | access-date=24 October 2006 | archive-date=25 June 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060625064926/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/328709.stm | url-status=live}}</ref> The bishop offered her ordination following her appearance on RTÉ's '']'', during which she told presenter ] that had she not been a singer she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. O'Connor adopted the ] Mother Bernadette Mary.<ref name="1999Ordination">{{cite news|title=Ordination conducted by Tridentine bishop once of harbour police |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=27 April 1999 |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ordination-conducted-by-tridentine-bishop-once-of-harbour-police-1.178134 |access-date=3 August 2023 |last=Humphreys |first=Joe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408175259/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ordination-conducted-by-tridentine-bishop-once-of-harbour-police-1.178134 |archive-date=8 April 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In a 2000 interview in '']'', O'Connor ] herself as a lesbian, "I'm a dyke ... although I haven't been very open about that and throughout most of my life I've gone out with blokes because I haven't necessarily been terribly comfortable about being a big lesbian mule. But I actually am a dyke."<ref>{{Cite news| url = http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-27901349_ITM | title = Sinéad O'Connor Comes Out in an Exclusive Interview With Curve, the Nation's Best-Selling Lesbian Magazine. | publisher = PR Newswire | date = 2000-06-08 | accessdate = 2008-02-26 }}</ref> However, soon after in an interview in '']'', she stated, "I believe it was overcompensating of me to declare myself a lesbian. It was not a publicity stunt. I was trying to make someone else feel better. And have subsequently caused pain for myself. I am not in a box of any description." In a magazine article and in a programme on ] (''Ryan Confidential'', broadcast on RTÉ on 29 May 2003), she stated that while most of her sexual relationships had been with men, she has had three relationships with women. In a May 2005 issue of '']'', she stated, "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter ]. I lean a bit more towards the hairy blokes".<ref></ref> | |||
In a July 2007 interview with '']'', O'Connor stated that she considered herself a Christian and that she believed in core Christian concepts about the ] and ]. She said, "I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally."<ref>{{Cite web | url = https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/julyweb-only/sineadoconnor-0707.html | title = Jesus Is 'Like an Energy' | magazine = Christianity Today | last=Farias | first=Andree | date = 9 July 2007 | access-date = 19 October 2010 | archive-date = 26 September 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210926185155/https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2007/julyweb-only/sineadoconnor-0707.html | url-status = live}}</ref> In an October 2002 interview, she credited her Christian faith in giving her the strength to live through and overcome the effects of her childhood abuse.<ref name="salon">{{Cite news |last=Tapper |first=Jake |date=12 October 2002 |title=Sinéad was right |work=Arts & Entertainment |url=http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/10/12/sinead/index_np.html |url-status=dead |access-date=24 October 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206041043/http://archive.salon.com/ent/feature/2002/10/12/sinead/index_np.html |archive-date=6 February 2007}}</ref> | |||
On 26 March 2010, O'Connor appeared on CNN's '']'' to speak out about the ].<ref>{{Cite news | date = 26 March 2010 | title = Sinéad O'Connor in TV | url = http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/03/26/ac.sinead.oconnor.intv.cnn?iref=allsearch | publisher = CNN | type = video | access-date = 30 March 2010 | archive-date = 30 December 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101230111923/http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/03/26/ac.sinead.oconnor.intv.cnn?iref=allsearch | url-status = dead}}</ref> On 28 March 2010, she had an opinion piece published in the Sunday edition of '']'' in which she wrote about the scandal and her time in a ] as a teenager.{{r |wp20100325}} Writing for the '']'' she labelled the ] as "a nest of devils" and called for the establishment of an "alternative church", opining that "Christ is being murdered by liars" in the Vatican.<ref>{{Cite web | url = http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/we-must-destroy-nest-of-devils-in-the-vatican-for-christs-sake-2823575.html | title = We must destroy nest of devils in the Vatican, for Christ's sake | last=O'Connor | first=Sinead | website = Independent.ie | date = 17 July 2011 | access-date = 26 July 2011 | archive-date = 19 July 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110719113814/http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/we-must-destroy-nest-of-devils-in-the-vatican-for-christs-sake-2823575.html | url-status = dead}}</ref> Shortly after the election of ], she said:<ref>{{cite web | title=Sinead O'Connor: Pope's office is anti-Christian | website=Channel 4 News | date=14 March 2013 | url=https://www.channel4.com/news/sinead-oconnor-the-popes-office-is-anti-christian | access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Michaels |first=Sean |date=12 February 2013 |title=Sinead O'Connor congratulates pope on his 'greatest act' – resigning |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/12/sinead-o-connor-pope |access-date=27 July 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |author-link=Sean Michaels (writer) |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230727112955/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/feb/12/sinead-o-connor-pope |archive-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
{{blockquote |Well, you know, I guess I wish everyone the best, and I don't know anything about the man, so I'm not going to rush to judge him on one thing or another, but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task, because all religions, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it's drowning in a sea of ''conditional'' love, and therefore it can't survive, and actually the office of Pope itself is an anti-Christian office, the idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous at the same time, therefore it is a house built on sand, and we need to rescue God from religion, all religions, they've become a smokescreen that distracts people from the fact that there ''is'' a holy spirit, and when you study ] you see the Christ character came to tell us that we only need to talk directly to God, we never needed Religion ...}} | |||
Asked whether from her point of view, it is therefore irrelevant who is elected to be pope, O'Connor replied: | |||
{{blockquote |Genuinely I don't mean disrespect to Catholic people because I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in the Holy Spirit, all of those, but I also believe in all of them, I don't think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? Religion is a smokescreen, it has everybody talking to the wall. There ''is'' a Holy Spirit who can't intervene on our behalf unless we ask it. Religion has us talking to the wall. The Christ character tells us himself: you must only talk directly to the Father; you don't need intermediaries. We all ''thought'' we did, and that's ok, we're not bad people, but let's wake up God was there before religion; it's there despite religion; it'll be there when religion is gone.<ref>{{Cite web| format = YouTube video | url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9F6YoyxJA | time = 05:42 | title = Sinead O'Connor's thoughts on the new Pope | work = Channel 4 News | type = interview | first = Jon | last = Snow | date=14 March 2013 |access-date = 28 November 2016 | archive-date = 5 April 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170405165528/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB9F6YoyxJA | url-status = live}}</ref>}} | |||
Tatiana Kavelka wrote about O'Connor's later Christian work, describing it as "theologically charged yet unorthodox, oriented toward interfaith dialogue and those on the margins".<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kalveks |first=Tatiana |title=Sinéad O'Connor: Priesthood of the Excluded |journal=Journal of Religion and Popular Culture |volume=30 |issue=3 |year=2018 |pages=178–92 |doi=10.3138/jrpc.2017-0008 |s2cid=150998288 |url=https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jrpc.2017-0008}}</ref> In August 2018, via an open letter, she asked Pope Francis to issue a certificate of ] to her, as she had also asked ] and ].<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/26/sinead-oconnor-converts-to-islam-shuhada-davitt|title=Sinéad O'Connor converts to Islam, taking new name Shuhada' Davitt |first=Ben |last=Beaumont-Thomas |date=26 October 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=11 November 2018|archive-date=12 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412082135/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/26/sinead-oconnor-converts-to-islam-shuhada-davitt|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.ie/life/the-excommunication-factor/29258479.html|title=The Excommunication Factor|last=Meagher|first=John|date=12 May 2013|access-date=1 August 2023}}</ref> | |||
In October 2018, O'Connor converted to ], calling it "the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey".<ref name="irishpostislam">{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-renounces-catholicism-converts-islam-161261|title=Sinead O'Connor renounces Catholicism and converts to Islam|last=Lonergan|first=Aidan|work=The Irish Post|date=25 October 2018|archive-date=2 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902030336/https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-renounces-catholicism-converts-islam-161261|url-status=live}}</ref> The ceremony was conducted in Ireland by ]ic theologian Shaykh ]. She also changed her name to Shuhada' Davitt. In a message on Twitter, she thanked fellow Muslims for their support and uploaded a video of herself reciting the '']'', the Islamic call to prayer. She also posted photos of herself wearing a ].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2018/10/25/singer-sinead-oconnor-converts-islam-changes-name/|title=Singer Sinead O'Connor converts to Islam and changes her name|date=25 October 2018|work=I Am Birmingham|access-date=26 October 2018|archive-date=26 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181026104142/https://www.iambirmingham.co.uk/2018/10/25/singer-sinead-oconnor-converts-islam-changes-name/|url-status=live}}</ref> She later changed her surname from Davitt to Sadaqat.<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith |first=Jamel |date=28 July 2023 |title=Sinead O'Connor was a blessed soul, says Imam |language=en |work=] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/sinead-o-connor-grammy-god-koran-bray-b2383838.html |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Beresford |first=Jack |date=21 June 2021 |title=Sinead O'Connor to legally change her name by deed poll to Shuhada Sadaqat |work=] |url=https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinead-oconnor-to-legally-change-her-name-by-deed-poll-to-shuhada-sadaqat-214577 |access-date=31 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
After her conversion to Islam, Sadaqat called those who were not Muslims "disgusting" and criticised Christian and Jewish theologians on Twitter in November 2018. She wrote: "What I'm about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that's what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting."<ref>{{cite web |date=6 November 2018 |title=Sinead O'Connor says she 'never wants to spend time with white people again' following conversion to Islam |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-islam-white-people-shuhada-davitt-muslim-a8620231.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929170431/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/sinead-oconnor-islam-white-people-shuhada-davitt-muslim-a8620231.html |archive-date=29 September 2019 |access-date=12 November 2018 |website=The Independent|first=Jack|last=Shepherd}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Sinead O'Connor upsets Muslims, says she won't associate with 'disgusting' white people |url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/11/06/sinead-oconnor-upsets-muslims-calls-white-people-disgusting/1912720002/ |last=Haas |first=Susan |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108125337/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/2018/11/06/sinead-oconnor-upsets-muslims-calls-white-people-disgusting/1912720002/ |archive-date=8 November 2020 |access-date=12 November 2018 |date=7 November 2018 |website=USA Today}}</ref> Two days later, she tweeted that anyone who is not Muslim is "mentally ill".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lonergan |first=Aidan |title=Sinead O'Connor claims anyone who isn't Muslim is 'mentally ill' and says she wants to outlive Bono so he can't speak at her funeral |url=https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinead-oconnor-claims-anyone-isnt-muslim-mentally-ill-says-wants-outlive-bono-cant-speak-funeral-162011 |access-date=2024-07-03 |website=The Irish Post}}</ref> Later that month, Sadaqat stated that her remarks were made in an attempt to force Twitter to close down her account.<ref>{{cite web |last=Freeth |first=Becky |date=15 November 2018 |title=Sinead O'Connor returns to Twitter to 'annoy the white supremacists' and 'f*****g idiots' spamming her page |url=https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/15/sinead-oconnor-returns-to-twitter-to-annoy-the-white-supremacists-and-fg-idiots-spamming-her-page-8141221/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181115102154/https://metro.co.uk/2018/11/15/sinead-oconnor-returns-to-twitter-to-annoy-the-white-supremacists-and-fg-idiots-spamming-her-page-8141221/ |archive-date=15 November 2018 |access-date=15 November 2018 |website=Metro}}</ref> In September 2019, she apologised for the remarks, saying "They were not true at the time and they are not true now. I was triggered as a result of ] dumped on me. I apologize for hurt caused. That was one of many crazy tweets lord knows."<ref>{{cite news |last=Tracy |first=Brianne |date=9 September 2019 |title=Sinéad O'Connor Apologizes for Calling White People 'Disgusting,' Returns to Stage After Hiatus |work=People |url=https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-apologizes-saying-white-people-disgusting/ |url-status=live |access-date=11 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923182308/https://people.com/music/sinead-oconnor-apologizes-saying-white-people-disgusting/ |archive-date=23 September 2019}}</ref> | |||
===Health=== | ===Health=== | ||
In the early 2000s, O'Connor revealed that she suffered from ]. The pain and fatigue she experienced caused her to take a break from music from 2003 to 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1600480/sinead-o-connor-health-fibromyalgia-symptoms |title=Sinead O'Connor: Singer quit music in past due to 'difficulty' with fibromyalgia |first=Luke |last=Whelan |date=24 April 2022 |website=Express.co.uk |url-status=live |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610235316/https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1600480/sinead-o-connor-health-fibromyalgia-symptoms}}</ref> | |||
On an 4 October 2007 broadcast of '']'', O'Connor disclosed that she had been diagnosed with ] four years earlier, and had attempted ] on her 33rd birthday on 8 December 1999.<ref name="Toronto">Rayner, Ben. . ]. 21 Oct 2007</ref> | |||
On an episode of '']'' broadcast on 4 October 2007, O'Connor disclosed that she had attempted suicide on her 33rd birthday, 8 December 1999, and that she had since been diagnosed with ].<ref name="Toronto">{{Cite news|last=Rayner |first=Ben |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/268921 |title=The gospel according to Sinead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024003421/http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/268921 |archive-date=24 October 2012 |url-status=dead |newspaper=] |date=21 October 2007}}</ref> However, on an episode of '']'' broadcast on 9 February 2014, she said that three "second opinions" had all found her not to be bipolar.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}} | |||
===Religion=== | |||
In the late 1990s, Bishop ] of the Irish Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church (an ] group not in communion with the ]) ] Sinéad as a priest. The Roman Catholic Church considers ordination of women to be either invalid, impossible, or both and asserts that a person attempting the sacrament of ordination upon a woman incurs '']'' ].<ref name="O'Connor becomes a 'priest'">{{Cite news | |||
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}}</ref> The bishop had contacted her to offer ordination following her appearance on the ]'s ''Late Late Show,'' during which she told the presenter, ], that had she not been a singer, she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. After her ordination, she indicated that she wished to be called ''Mother Bernadette Mary.''<ref name="O'Connor becomes a 'priest'"/> | |||
In August 2015, she announced that she was to undergo a ] after suffering gynaecological problems for over three years.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.evoke.ie/showbiz/sinead-oconnor-message-to-grandkids-posted-on-facebook/| work=evoke.ie| title=Sinéad O'Connor's touching words for her grandkids ahead of hysterectomy| date=26 August 2015| access-date=27 August 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924040417/http://www.evoke.ie/showbiz/sinead-oconnor-message-to-grandkids-posted-on-facebook/| archive-date=24 September 2015| url-status=dead| df=dmy-all}}</ref> She later blamed the hospital's refusal to administer ] after the operation as the main reason for her mental health issues in subsequent years, stating "I was flung into surgical menopause. Hormones were everywhere. I became very suicidal. I was a basket case."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Deerwester|first1=Jayme|title=Sinéad O'Connor tells Dr. Phil her problems stemmed from being 'flung into menopause'|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/09/12/sinead-oconnor-tells-dr-phil-her-problems-stemmed-being-flung-into-menopause/659140001/|website=USA Today|date=12 September 2017|access-date=16 September 2017|archive-date=6 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606090206/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/09/12/sinead-oconnor-tells-dr-phil-her-problems-stemmed-being-flung-into-menopause/659140001/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
In a July 2007 interview with '']'', O'Connor stated that she considers herself a Christian and that she believes in core Christian concepts about ] and Jesus Christ. She said, "I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home... I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally". She also expressed a belief in ], viewing the physical universe as a body with divine "energy".<ref>. Christianity Today (2007-09-07). Retrieved on 2010-10-19.</ref> In an October 2002 interview with Salon.com, she credited her Christian faith in giving her the strength to live through and then overcome her child abuse.<ref name=salon/> | |||
Having smoked cannabis for 30 years, O'Connor went to a rehabilitation centre in 2016, to end her addiction.<ref>{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/sinead-oconnor-completes-30-day-rehab-stint-for-pot-addiction-7556690/ |title=Sinead O'Connor Completes 30-Day Rehab Stint For Pot Addiction, Moving Into Sober Living Facility |last=Kaufman |first=Gil |date=25 October 2016 |magazine=] |access-date=21 November 2019 |archive-date=17 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017115320/https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/sinead-oconnor-completes-30-day-rehab-stint-for-pot-addiction-7556690/ |url-status=live}}</ref> She stated in February 2020 that she was ].<ref>{{cite web|last=Beresford |first=Jack |title=Sinead O'Connor she wouldn't be alive today if she hadn't publicly reached out for help|url=https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinead-oconnor-wouldnt-alive-today-hadnt-publicly-reached-help-178650 |date=3 February 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924211818/https://www.irishpost.com/news/sinead-oconnor-wouldnt-alive-today-hadnt-publicly-reached-help-178650 |archive-date=24 September 2020|access-date=8 September 2020|work=The Irish Post}}</ref> She had also previously been diagnosed with ] and ].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Vivinetto |first=Gina |url=https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/sinead-oconnor-talks-infamous-snl-performance-and-being-called-crazy/2820955/|title = Sinead O'Connor Talks Infamous 'SNL' Performance and Being Called 'Crazy' |date= 20 May 2021|website = NBC Philadelphia |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210520095306/https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/sinead-oconnor-talks-infamous-snl-performance-and-being-called-crazy/2820955/ |archive-date=20 May 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
On 26 March 2010, O'Connor appeared on '']'' to speak out about the ].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/03/26/ac.sinead.oconnor.intv.cnn?iref=allsearch | work=CNN | title=CNN.com Video}}</ref> On 28 March 2010, she had an opinion piece published in the ] of the ] where she wrote about the ] and her time in a ] as a teenager.{{r|wp20100325}} | |||
In August 2017, O'Connor posted a 12-minute video on her ] page in which she stated that she had felt alone since losing custody of her 13-year-old son, Shane, and that for the previous two years she had wanted to kill herself, with only her doctor and psychiatrist "keeping her alive".<ref name="DT_170808">{{cite news|title=Sinead O'Connor sparks fears for her mental health after posting tearful video online|newspaper=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/08/sinead-oconnor-sparks-fears-mental-health-posting-tearful-video/|date=8 August 2017|archive-date=28 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328081100/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/08/sinead-oconnor-sparks-fears-mental-health-posting-tearful-video/|url-status=live}}</ref> The month after her Facebook post, O'Connor appeared on the 16th-season debut episode of American television talk show '']''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Fernandez |first=Matt |title=Sinead O'Connor on 'Dr. Phil': 'I'm Very Excited to Be Getting Some Proper Help'|url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil-interview-video-1202555641/|website=Variety|date=12 September 2017|access-date=19 December 2017|archive-date=16 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171216172523/http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil-interview-video-1202555641/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to the show's host, ], O'Connor wanted to do the interview because she wished to "destigmatise mental illness", noting the prevalence of mental health problems among musicians.<ref>{{cite web|last1=France|first1=Lisa Respers|title=Sinead O'Connor sits down with 'Dr. Phil'|date=8 September 2017|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/08/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil/index.html|work=CNN|access-date=16 September 2017|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920142801/https://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/08/entertainment/sinead-oconnor-dr-phil/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, O'Connor commented that she had spent much of the last six years in ] in Dublin, and that she was grateful to them for helping her stay alive.<ref name="Hatterstone_StP">{{Cite news |last=Hattenstone |first=Simon |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinead O'Connor: the angelic skinhead for whom love, intelligence and madness were inseparable |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-mental-health-struggles-parental-abuse |access-date=3 August 2023 |quote=She was so grateful to the psychiatric hospital St Patrick's, which she called her second home. 'Thank God I spent a lot of the last six years there, because otherwise I wouldn't be alive.' |issn=0261-3077 |author-link=Simon Hattenstone |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230811082739/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-mental-health-struggles-parental-abuse |archive-date=11 August 2023}}</ref> | |||
===Political beliefs=== | |||
O'Connor is a ] and, as such, she supports Ireland's tradition of neutrality in foreign wars.<ref name=salon/> | |||
=== Death === | |||
O'Connor died on 26 July 2023 in her flat in ], south London, at the age of 56.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Beaumont |first1=Mark |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor, 1966–2023: an artist of integrity, intensity and honesty |url=https://www.nme.com/features/music-features/sinead-oconnor-obituary-3473864 |access-date=27 July 2023 |publisher=NME}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Carroll |first=Rory |author-link=Rory Carroll |date=27 July 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor was found unresponsive in London flat, says Met |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-was-found-unresponsive-in-london-flat-says-met |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803022723/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/sinead-oconnor-was-found-unresponsive-in-london-flat-says-met |archive-date=3 August 2023 |access-date=27 July 2023 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> The ] was ] and ].<ref>{{cite news |date=29 July 2024 |title=Sinead O'Connor cause of death revealed |url=https://news.sky.com/story/sinead-oconnor-cause-of-death-revealed-13186706 |accessdate=29 July 2024 |work=]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Nierenberg |first=Amelia |date=2024-07-29 |title=Sinead O'Connor Died of Pulmonary Disease and Asthma, Death Report Says |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/world/europe/sinead-oconnor-cause-of-death.html |access-date=2024-07-30 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> | |||
A private funeral was held on 8 August in Bray, County Wicklow. It was attended by the president of Ireland, ], and O'Connor's family invited the public to pay their respects at the seafront where the ] passed. Thousands attended bearing signs and tributes;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carroll |first=Rory |author-link=Rory Carroll |date=8 August 2023 |title='She blazed a trail': thousands gather for funeral of Sinéad O'Connor in Ireland |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/08/thousands-gather-funeral-sinead-oconnor-ireland |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230812135341/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/08/thousands-gather-funeral-sinead-oconnor-ireland |archive-date=12 August 2023 |access-date=8 August 2023 |work=] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> her burial was held privately at ].<ref>{{cite news |date=10 August 2023 |title=Sinéad O'Connor's final resting place is a peaceful plot in south Dublin |url=https://extra.ie/2023/08/10/news/irish-news/sinead-oconnor-final-resting-place |access-date=16 August 2023 |publisher=Extra}}</ref> | |||
== Tributes == | |||
Celebrities including ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ] posted tributes on social media.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Squires |first=Bethy |date=2023-07-27 |title=Sinéad O'Connor, As Remembered by Collaborators and Famous Fans |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/sinead-oconnor-death-celebrity-twitter.html |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Vulture |language=en-us}}</ref> English singer ] wrote a tribute criticising the reaction from executives and celebrities, and wrote: "You praise her now only because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Beaumont-Thomas |first=Ben |date=27 July 2023 |title='You hadn't the guts to support her': Morrissey decries music industry after Sinéad O'Connor's death |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/morrissey-sinead-oconnor-death |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803005138/https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jul/27/morrissey-sinead-oconnor-death |archive-date=3 August 2023 |access-date=10 August 2023 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> | |||
American singer-songwriter ] wrote a tribute to O'Connor in '']'', praising her integrity.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |date=2023-08-02 |title=Phoebe Bridgers Remembers Sinéad O'Connor: 'It's Abuse to Be Told to Shut Up and Sing' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/phoebe-bridgers-sinead-oconnor-tribute-1234798904/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US}}</ref> In November 2023, ] and Irish group ] released a cover of the Scottish folk song "]" as a charity Christmas song and tribute to O'Connor.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-17 |title=Boygenius Cover "The Parting Glass," a Charity Benefit Single in Tribute to Sinéad O'Connor |url=https://pitchfork.com/news/boygenius-cover-the-parting-glass-a-charity-benefit-single-in-tribute-to-sinead-oconnor-listen/ |access-date=2023-11-24 |website=Pitchfork |language=en-US}}</ref> | |||
On 9 January 2024, it was announced that a tribute concert for O'Connor and ] from ], who also died in 2023, would take place on 20 March in ] in ].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-09 |title=Sinéad O'Connor died of natural causes, coroner confirms |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67926255 |access-date=2024-01-09 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2 March 2024 |title=A St. Paddy's Celebration of Sinéad O'Connor and Shane MacGowan – Carnegie Hall |url=https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/20/a-st-paddys-celebration-of-sinead-oconnor-and-shane-macgowan-0800pm |website=www.carnegiehall.org}}</ref> | |||
On 4 February 2024, Scottish singer and activist ] paid tribute to O'Connor by performing "Nothing Compares 2 U" during the ''In Memoriam'' segment at the ]. During the performance she had a tear painted on her cheek in homage to a similar scene in the song's music video. She was accompanied by ].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Madarang |first1=Charisma |last2=Grow |first2=Kory |date=5 February 2024 |title=Tony Bennett, Sinead O'Connor, Tina Turner Honored During In Memoriam at 2024 Grammys |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/grammys-2024-in-memoriam-tribute-1234956928/ |access-date=5 February 2024 |magazine=Rolling Stone}}</ref> Lennox ended the performance by calling for a cease-fire in the ] and "peace in the world" which was also seen as a tribute to O'Connor's political outspokenness.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Nichols |first=John |date=6 February 2024 |title=And the Winner Is… Annie Lennox and Artists for Cease-Fire |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/annie-lennox-grammys-ceasefire/ |access-date=15 February 2024 |magazine=The National}}</ref> In March 2024, a ] doll in O'Connor's likeness, to commemorate ], was announced.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brasil |first=Sydney |date=18 March 2024 |title=Sinéad O'Connor Remembered by Bratz with Her Own Doll |url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/sinead-o-connor-remembered-by-bratz-with-her-own-doll |accessdate=18 March 2024 |work=]}}</ref> | |||
== In popular culture == | |||
O'Connor was parodied as Niamh Connolly, a feminist singer, in "]", an episode of the TV series '']''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Irish Times|date=29 July 2015|title=The Secret Lives of Father Ted|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/the-secret-lives-of-the-priests-in-father-ted-1.2300743|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150729103644/http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/the-secret-lives-of-the-priests-in-father-ted-1.2300743 |archive-date=29 July 2015 |access-date=24 October 2023|website=]}}</ref> | |||
==Discography== | ==Discography== | ||
{{Main|Sinéad O'Connor discography}} | {{Main|Sinéad O'Connor discography}} | ||
* '']'' (1987) | |||
===Studio Albums=== | |||
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* '']'' (1990) | ||
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* '']'' (1992) | ||
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* '']'' (1994) | ||
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* '']'' (2000) | ||
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* '']'' (2002) | ||
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* '']'' (2005) | ||
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* '']'' (2007) | ||
* '']'' (2012) | |||
* 2007: '']'' | |||
* '']'' (2014) | |||
* 2011: ''Home'' | |||
===EP's and Compilations=== | |||
* 1997: '']'' | |||
* 2003: '']'' | |||
* 2005: '']'' | |||
== |
==Filmography== | ||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
{{cquote|I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.}} | |||
|+ Film and television appearances of Sinéad O'Connor | |||
'']'' - March 1991<ref name="NME Rock 'N' Roll Years">{{Cite book | |||
|- | |||
| first= John | |||
!scope="col"| Year | |||
| last= Tobler | |||
!scope="col"| Film | |||
| year= 1992 | |||
!scope="col"| Role | |||
| title= NME Rock 'N' Roll Years | |||
!scope="col"| Notes | |||
| edition= 1st | |||
|- | |||
| publisher= Reed International Books Ltd | |||
!scope="row"| 1990 | |||
| location= London | |||
|'']'' | |||
| page= 482 | |||
| Sinéad | |||
| id= CN 5585}}</ref> | |||
|also wrote the soundtrack | |||
|- | |||
!scope="row"| 1991 | |||
| ''The Ghosts of Oxford Street '' | |||
| Ann of Oxford Street | |||
|TV movie | |||
|- | |||
!scope="row"| 1992 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Emily Brontë | |||
| uncredited | |||
|- | |||
!scope="row"| 1997 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Virgin Mary | |||
| | |||
|- | |||
!scope="row"| 2007 | |||
| ''100 Greatest Songs of the 90s'' | |||
| Herself | |||
| miniseries | |||
|- | |||
!scope="row"| 2022 | |||
| '']'' | |||
| Herself (voice) | |||
| documentary | |||
|} | |||
==Awards== | |||
{| class="wikitable sortable" | |||
|+ List of awards and nominations of Sinéad O'Connor | |||
|- | |||
! scope="col"| Year | |||
! scope="col"| Work | |||
! scope="col"| Association | |||
! scope="col"| Category | |||
! scope="col"| Result | |||
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{abbr|Ref.|reference}} | |||
|- | |||
| 1989 | |||
| ''The Lion and the Cobra'' | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/31st-annual-grammy-awards-1988 |title=31st Annual GRAMMY Awards (1988) |website=grammy.com |publisher=The Recording Academy |date=28 November 2017 |access-date=11 July 2021 |archive-date=13 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210713084323/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/31st-annual-grammy-awards-1988 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="9" | 1990 | |||
| rowspan="2" | Herself | |||
| ] | |||
| Best Foreign Artist | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/musik/rockbjornen/a/yvg9GA/tidigare-vinnare-i-rockbjornen|title=Rockbjörnen: Här är alla tidigare vinnare|trans-title=Rockbjörnen: Here are all the previous winners |last=Weibro |first=Sandra |website=]|date=24 May 2023|orig-date=27 May 2010|access-date=26 July 2023|language=sv}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2"| ] | |||
| Rock Female Artist | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"| <ref name="auto4">{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/sinead-oconnor-nothing-compares-2-u-vmas-first-woman-video-of-the-year-winner-1235379610/|title=Sinead O'Connor Blazed a Trail for Women at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards|magazine=] |date=26 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="10" | "Nothing Compares 2 U" | |||
| No. 1 World Single | |||
| {{won}} | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="6"| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="6"| <ref name="VMA1990">{{cite web|url=http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/1990/|title=MTV Video Music Awards 1990|website=MTV|access-date=23 July 2012|archive-date=19 February 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20170219003236/http://www.mtv.com/vma/1990|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="RTElip">{{cite web|url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2023/0727/1396750-sinead-oconnor-a-life-in-pictures/|title=A Life in Pictures: Sinéad O'Connor|website=RTÉ|date=27 July 2023|access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{won}} | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{won}} | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="10" | 1991 | |||
| rowspan="4" | ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"| <ref name=Grammy1991>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/01/11/collins-leads-grammy-hopefuls/8529a825-eda2-45c4-8e03-2881856a5826/|title=Collins Leads Grammy Hopefuls|date=11 January 1991|access-date=12 July 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|first=Richard|last=Harrington|url-status=live|archive-date=9 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709103814/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1991/01/11/collins-leads-grammy-hopefuls/8529a825-eda2-45c4-8e03-2881856a5826/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/33rd-annual-grammy-awards-1990 |title=33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards (1990) |website=grammy.com |publisher=The Recording Academy |date=28 November 2017 |access-date=11 July 2021 |archive-date=19 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719144824/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/33rd-annual-grammy-awards-1990 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | ''I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got'' | |||
| ] | |||
| {{won}} | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://junoawards.ca/awards/past-winners-nominees/?search_year_val1=1991&search_year_val2=1991&search_category_val=197&search_wins_val=no&tag_search_val=&submit=submit |title=Past Nominees + Winners – The JUNO Awards of 1991 – International Album of the Year|website=JunoAwards.ca|date=27 March 2020|orig-date=7 November 2019|access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="4" | Herself | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://junoawards.ca/awards/past-winners-nominees/?search_year_val1=1991&search_year_val2=1991&search_category_val=211&search_wins_val=no&tag_search_val=&submit=submit |title=Past Nominees + Winners – The JUNO Awards of 1991 – International Entertainer of the Year|website=JunoAwards.ca|date=27 March 2020|orig-date=7 November 2019|access-date=27 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-29-ca-458-story.html |title=M. C. Hammer, Rap Win Big at American Music Awards |work=L.A. Times Archives |agency=] |date=29 January 1991 |access-date=7 August 2023 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200922022506/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-01-29-ca-458-story.html |archive-date=22 September 2020}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref name=":02"/> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2" | ] | |||
| Foreign Female Artist of the Year | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| {{citation needed|date=July 2023}} | |||
|- | |||
| "Nothing Compares 2 U" | |||
| Foreign Hit of the Year | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| {{citation needed|date=July 2023}} | |||
|- | |||
| 1992 | |||
| ''Year of the Horse'' | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor/9599 |title=Artist: Sinéad O'Connor |website=grammy.com |publisher=The Recording Academy |access-date=11 July 2021 |archive-date=25 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210725125123/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/sin%C3%A9ad-oconnor/9599 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="3"| 1994 | |||
| "]" | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.awardsandshows.com/features/mtv-vmas-1994-487.html|title=MTV VMAs 1994|website=awardsandshows.com|access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="3"| Herself | |||
| ] Awards | |||
| Best International Singer | |||
| {{won}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/225?year=1994&month=12&lra%5B%5D=48|title=Goldene Europa 94 |language=de-DE |website=Chronik der ARD |date=3 December 1994 |access-date=28 July 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210619071641/https://web.ard.de/ard-chronik/index/225?year=1994&month=12&lra%5B%5D=48}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| Žebřík Music Award | |||
| Best International Female | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
|style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.anketazebrik.cz/historie/1996-1992/ |title=Historie (1996–1992) |language=Czech |website=anketazebrik.cz |access-date=28 July 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716012228/https://www.anketazebrik.cz/historie/1996-1992/}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2"| 1995 | |||
| ] | |||
| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref name=":02"/> | |||
|- | |||
| "]" | |||
| rowspan=2| ] | |||
| rowspan=2| ] | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/sinead-oconnor/9599|title=Sinéad O'Connor|publisher=]|access-date=March 6, 2024}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2"| 1996 | |||
| rowspan=2| "Famine" | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2023/music/news/sinead-oconnor-dead-nothing-compares-2-u-1235680724/|title=Sinéad O'Connor, Irish Singer of 'Nothing Compares 2 U,' Dies at 56|first=Erin|last=Nyren|date=26 July 2023|work=]}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| ] | |||
| Pop Promo Video (Individual) | |||
| {{won|place=Bronze|Wood Pencil}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{Cite web |title=Sinead O'Connor – Famine. Chrysalis Records. D&AD Awards 1996 Pencil Winner. individual |url=https://www.dandad.org/awards/professional/1996/pop-promo-videos/21178/sinead-oconnor-famine/ |access-date=27 July 2023 |website=D&AD}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| rowspan="2"| 2000 | |||
| "No Man's Woman" | |||
| ] | |||
| Best Jazz/AC Clip of the Year | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/events/mvc/nominees2000.html |title=Complete List Of 2000 Music Video Awards Nominees |magazine=Billboard |year=2000 |access-date=13 August 2023 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001116232200/http://www.billboard.com/events/mvc/nominees2000.html |archive-date=16 November 2000}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| Herself | |||
| Žebřík Music Award | |||
| Best International Female | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.anketazebrik.cz/historie/2003-1997/ |title=Historie (2003–1997) |language=Czech |website=anketazebrik.cz |access-date=28 July 2021 |url-status=live |archive-date=16 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210716013812/https://www.anketazebrik.cz/historie/2003-1997/}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2003 | |||
| "]" | |||
| ] | |||
| Best Progressive House/Trance Track | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wintermusicconference.com/events/idmas/index.php?wmcyear=2003#idmanominees |title=31st Annual International Dance Music Awards – WMC 2016 |website=WinterMusicConference.com|access-date=29 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416085847/http://www.wintermusicconference.com/events/idmas/index.php?wmcyear=2003#idmanominees |archive-date=16 April 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2004 | |||
| rowspan="5"| Herself | |||
| rowspan="5"| ] | |||
| rowspan="5"| Best Irish Female | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web | title=Music awards voting eased as star acts nominated | website=Independent.ie | date=14 January 2004 | url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/music-awards-voting-eased-as-star-acts-nominated/26020284.html | access-date=28 July 2023 |last=O'Keeffe |first=Alan |url-status=live |archive-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728135839/https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/music-awards-voting-eased-as-star-acts-nominated/26020284.html}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2005 | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2005/0111/403164-meteormusicawards/ |title=Meteor Music Awards nominations announced |website=RTÉ|date=30 January 2009|orig-date=11 January 2005|access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2006 | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite news |last=Courtney|first=Kevin|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/no-surprises-as-u2-pick-up-three-awards-for-being-simply-the-best-1.1010277 |title=No surprises as U2 pick up three awards for being simply the best |newspaper=The Irish Times |date=3 February 2006 |access-date=28 July 2023 |url-status=live |archive-date=28 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230728102717/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/no-surprises-as-u2-pick-up-three-awards-for-being-simply-the-best-1.1010277}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2007 | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
| style="text-align:center;"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2007/1130/411963-meteorawards/ |title=Meteor Music Awards nominations announced |website=RTÉ|date=30 November 2007|access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref> | |||
|- | |||
| 2008 | |||
| {{nom}} | |||
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* Guterman, Jimmy. ''Sinéad : Her Life and Music''. Warner Books, 1991. ISBN 0-446-39254-5. | |||
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* Hayes, Dermott. ''Sinéad O'Connor: So Different''. ], 1991. {{ISBN|0-7119-2482-1}}. | |||
* Bertoncelli, Riccardo. ''Sinéad O'Connor.'' ], 1996. {{ISBN|8-8092-0911-7|}} | |||
* McCabe, Allyson. ''Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters'', ], 2023. {{ISBN|978-1-4773-2570-4}}. | |||
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Irish singer (1966–2023) For the fictional character from Hollyoaks, see Sinead O'Connor (Hollyoaks).
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Born | Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (1966-12-08)8 December 1966 Dublin, Ireland |
Died | 26 July 2023(2023-07-26) (aged 56) Herne Hill, London, England |
Resting place | Dean's Grange Cemetery |
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Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor (/ʃɪˈneɪd/ shin-AYD); 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist. Her debut studio album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in 1987 and achieved international chart success. Her 1990 album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was her biggest commercial success, selling over seven million copies worldwide. Its lead single, "Nothing Compares 2 U", was honoured as the top world single of the year at the Billboard Music Awards.
O'Connor achieved chart success with Am I Not Your Girl? (1992) and Universal Mother (1994), both certified gold in the UK, as well as Faith and Courage (2000), certified gold in Australia. Throw Down Your Arms (2005) achieved gold status in Ireland. Her career encompassed songs for films, collaborations with numerous artists, and appearances at charity fundraising concerts. O'Connor's memoir, Rememberings, was released in 2021 and became a bestseller.
O'Connor drew attention to issues such as child abuse, human rights, racism, and women's rights. During a Saturday Night Live performance in 1992, she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II to protest against abuse in the Catholic Church, sparking controversy. Throughout her musical career, she openly discussed her spiritual journey, activism, socio-political viewpoints, and her experiences with trauma and struggles with mental health. Having converted to Islam in 2018, she adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat while continuing to perform and record under her birth name. In 2024, O'Connor was posthumously nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Early life and education
Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor was born on 8 December 1966 at the Cascia House Nursing Home on Baggot Street in Dublin. She was named Sinéad after Sinéad de Valera, the mother of the doctor who presided over her delivery (Éamon de Valera, Jnr.), and Bernadette in honour of Saint Bernadette of Lourdes. She was the third of five children; an older brother is the novelist Joseph O'Connor. Her parents were John Oliver "Seán" O'Connor, a structural engineer later turned barrister and chairperson of the Divorce Action Group, and Johanna Marie O'Grady (1939–1985), who married in 1960 at the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Drimnagh, Dublin. She attended Dominican College Sion Hill school in Blackrock, County Dublin.
In her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, O'Connor wrote that she was regularly beaten by her mother, who also taught her to steal from the collection plate at Mass and from charity tins. In 1979, at age 13, O'Connor went to live with her father, who had recently returned to Ireland after marrying Viola Margaret Suiter (née Cook) in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, in 1976.
At the age of 15, following her acts of shoplifting and truancy, O'Connor was placed for 18 months in the Grianán Training Centre in Drumcondra, which was run by the Order of Our Lady of Charity. She thrived in certain aspects, particularly in the development of her writing and music, but she chafed under the imposed conformity of the asylum, despite being given freedoms not granted to the other girls, such as attending an outside school and being allowed to listen to music, write songs, etc. For punishment, O'Connor described how "if you were bad, they sent you upstairs to sleep in the old folks' home. You're in there in the pitch black, you can smell the shit and the puke and everything, and these old women are moaning in their sleep ... I have never—and probably will never—experience such panic and terror and agony over anything." She later attended Maryfield College in Drumcondra, and Newtown School in Waterford for fifth and sixth year as a boarder, but did not sit the Leaving Certificate in 1985.
On 10 February 1985, when O'Connor was 18, her mother died in a car accident, aged 45, after losing control of her car on an icy road in Ballybrack and crashing into a bus. In June 1993, O'Connor wrote a public letter in The Irish Times in which she asked people to "stop hurting" her: "If only I can fight off the voices of my parents / and gather a sense of self-esteem / Then I'll be able to REALLY sing ..." The letter repeated accusations of abuse by her parents as a child which O'Connor had made in interviews. Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". That month, Sinéad said: "Our family is very messed up. We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony. I for one am in agony."
Music career
1980s
One of the volunteers at the Grianán centre was the sister of Paul Byrne, the drummer for the band In Tua Nua, who heard O'Connor singing "Evergreen" by Barbra Streisand. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band. Through an ad she placed in Hot Press in mid-1984, she met Colm Farrelly. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band, Ton Ton Macoute. The band moved to Waterford briefly while O'Connor attended Newtown School, but she soon dropped out of school and followed them to Dublin, where their performances received positive reviews. Their sound was inspired by Farrelly's interest in world music, though most observers thought O'Connor's singing and stage presence were the band's strongest features.
O'Connor's time with Ton Ton Macoute brought her to the attention of the music industry, and she was eventually signed by Ensign Records. She also acquired an experienced manager, Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh, former head of U2's Mother Records. Soon after she was signed, she embarked on her first major assignment, providing the vocals for the song "Heroine", which she co-wrote with the U2 guitarist the Edge for the soundtrack to the film Captive. Ó Ceallaigh, who had been fired by U2 for complaining about them in an interview, was outspoken with his views on music and politics, and O'Connor adopted the same habits; she defended the actions of the Provisional IRA and said U2's music was "bombastic". She later retracted her IRA comments saying they were based on nonsense, and that she was "too young to understand the tense situation in Northern Ireland properly".
1987–1989: The Lion and the Cobra
O'Connor's first album, The Lion and the Cobra, was "a sensation" when it was released in 1987 on Chrysalis Records. O'Connor named Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Bob Marley, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and the Pretenders as the artists who influenced her on her debut album. The single "Mandinka" was a college radio hit in the United States, and "I Want Your (Hands on Me)" received both college and urban play in a remixed form that featured rapper MC Lyte. The song "Troy" was also released as a single in the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, where it reached number 5 on the Dutch Top 40 chart.
In her first US network television appearance, O'Connor sang "Mandinka" on Late Night with David Letterman in 1988. She was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, and performed "Mandinka" at the 31st Annual Grammy Awards. She painted the logo of the hip hop group Public Enemy on her head to protest the first-ever Best Rap Performance award being conferred off-screen.
In 1989, O'Connor provided guest vocals on the The The album Mind Bomb, on the duet "Kingdom of Rain". That same year, she made another foray into cinema, starring in and writing the music for the Northern Irish film Hush-a-Bye-Baby.
1990–1993: I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got
O'Connor's second album, I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was released in 1990. It gained considerable attention and mostly positive reviews. NME named it the year's second-best album. She was praised for her voice and original songs, while being noted for her appearance: trademark shaved head, often angry expression, and sometimes shapeless or unusual clothing. Her shaved head has been seen as a statement against traditional views of femininity.
The album featured Marco Pirroni (of Adam and the Ants fame), Andy Rourke (from the Smiths) and John Reynolds, her first husband. It contained her international breakthrough hit "Nothing Compares 2 U", a song written by Prince and originally recorded and released by a side project of his, the Family. Hank Shocklee, producer for Public Enemy, remixed the album's next single, "The Emperor's New Clothes", for a 12-inch that was coupled with another song from the LP, "I Am Stretched on Your Grave". Pre-dating but included on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got, was "Jump in the River", which originally appeared on the Married to the Mob soundtrack; the 12-inch version of the single had included a remix featuring performance artist Karen Finley.
O'Connor withdrew from a scheduled appearance on the American programme Saturday Night Live when she learnt that it was to be hosted by Andrew Dice Clay, who she said was disrespectful to women. In July 1990, O'Connor joined other guests for the former Pink Floyd member Roger Waters' performance of The Wall in Berlin. She contributed a cover of "You Do Something to Me" to the Cole Porter tribute/AIDS fundraising album Red Hot + Blue produced by the Red Hot Organization. Red Hot + Blue was followed by the release of Am I Not Your Girl?, an album made of covers of jazz standards and torch songs she had listened to while growing up; the album received mixed-to-poor reviews, and was a commercial disappointment in light of the success of her previous work. Her take on Elton John's "Sacrifice" was acclaimed as one of the best efforts on the tribute album Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John & Bernie Taupin.
—O'Connor in NME, March 1991I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.
Also in 1990, O'Connor said she would not perform if the United States national anthem was played before one of her concerts, saying she felt the American music industry was racist. She was attacked as ungrateful and anti-American, and drew criticism from celebrities including the singer Frank Sinatra, who threatened to "kick her in the ass". When people steamrolled her albums outside the offices of her record company in New York City, O'Connor attended in a wig and sunglasses and gave a television interview pretending to be from Saratoga.
O'Connor was nominated for four awards at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards and won for Best Alternative Music Performance. She refused to attend the ceremony or accept her award, and wrote an open letter to the Recording Academy criticising the industry for promoting materialistic values over artistic merit. At the Brit Awards 1991, she won the Brit Award for International Female Solo Artist, but did not attend the ceremony. She accepted the Irish IRMA in February 1991.
O'Connor spent the following months studying bel canto singing with teacher Frank Merriman at the Parnell School of Music. In an interview with The Guardian, published in May 1993, she reported that the lessons were the only therapy she was receiving, describing Merriman as "the most amazing teacher in the universe".
In 1992, O'Connor contributed vocals on the songs "Come Talk To Me" and "Blood of Eden" from the album Us by Peter Gabriel.
Saturday Night Live protest
Main article: Sinéad O'Connor on Saturday Night LiveOn 3 October 1992, O'Connor appeared on the American television programme Saturday Night Live (SNL) and staged a protest against the Catholic Church. After performing an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley's 1976 song "War" with new lyrics related to child abuse, she tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II taken from her mother's bedroom wall eight years earlier, said "fight the real enemy", and threw the pieces to the floor. O'Connor later said she felt the Catholic Church bore some responsibility for the physical, sexual and emotional abuse she had suffered as a child. She said the church had destroyed "entire races of people", and that Catholic priests had been abusing children for years. Her protest took place nine years before John Paul II publicly acknowledged child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.
The protest triggered hundreds of complaints from viewers. It attracted criticism from institutions including the Anti-Defamation League and the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations, and celebrities including Joe Pesci, Frank Sinatra and Madonna, who mocked the performance on SNL later that season. Two weeks after her SNL appearance, O'Connor was booed at the 30th-anniversary tribute concert for Bob Dylan at Madison Square Garden in New York City before Kris Kristofferson came on stage, put his arm around her and offered words of encouragement. In her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, O'Connor wrote that she did not regret the protest and that it was more important for her to be a protest singer than a successful pop star. Time later named O'Connor the most influential woman of 1992 for her protest.
1993–2000
The 1993 soundtrack to the film In the Name of the Father featured O'Connor's "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart". Her more conventional Universal Mother album (1994) spawned two music videos for the first and second singles, "Fire on Babylon" and "Famine", that were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. She toured with Lollapalooza in 1995, but dropped out when she became pregnant with her second child. In 1997, she released the Gospel Oak EP.
In 1994, she appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend. This was a two-night concert at Carnegie Hall produced by Roger Daltrey of the Who in celebration of his 50th birthday. A CD and a VHS video of the concert were issued in 1994, followed by a DVD in 1998.
In January 1995, O'Connor appeared on the British late-night television programme After Dark on an episode titled "Ireland: Sex & Celibacy, Church & State". She linked abuse in families to the Catholic Church. The discussion included a Dominican friar and another representative of the Roman Catholic Church, along with former taoiseach Garret FitzGerald. Host Helena Kennedy described the event: "Sinéad came on and argued that abuse in families was coded in by the church because it refused to accept the accounts of women and children."
In 1996, O'Connor provided guest vocals on Broken China, a solo album by Richard Wright of Pink Floyd. She made her final feature film appearance in Neil Jordan's The Butcher Boy in 1997, playing the Virgin Mary. In 1998, she worked again with the Red Hot Organization to co-produce and perform on Red Hot + Rhapsody.
2000s
Faith and Courage was released in 2000, including the single "No Man's Woman", and featured contributions from Wyclef Jean of the Fugees and Dave Stewart of Eurythmics.
Her 2002 album, Sean-Nós Nua, marked a departure in that O'Connor interpreted or, in her own words, "sexed up" traditional Irish folk songs, including several in the Irish language. In Sean-Nós Nua, she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, "Peggy Gordon".
In 2003, she contributed a track to the Dolly Parton tribute album Just Because I'm a Woman, a cover of Parton's "Dagger Through the Heart". That same year, she also featured on three songs of Massive Attack's album 100th Window before releasing her double album, She Who Dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High Shall Abide Under the Shadow of the Almighty. This compilation contained one disc of demos and previously unreleased tracks and one disc of a live concert recording. Directly after the album's release, O'Connor announced that she was retiring from music. Collaborations, a compilation album of guest appearances, was released in 2005—featuring tracks recorded with Peter Gabriel, Massive Attack, Jah Wobble, Terry Hall, Moby, Bomb the Bass, the Edge, U2, and The The.
Ultimately, after a brief period of inactivity and a bout with fibromyalgia, her retirement proved to be short-lived. O'Connor stated in an interview with Harp magazine that she had only intended to retire from making mainstream pop/rock music, and after dealing with her fibromyalgia she chose to move into other musical styles. The reggae album Throw Down Your Arms appeared in late 2005.
On 8 November 2006, O'Connor performed seven songs from her upcoming album Theology at The Sugar Club in Dublin. Thirty fans were given the opportunity to win pairs of tickets to attend along with music industry critics. The performance was released in 2008 as Live at the Sugar Club deluxe CD/DVD package sold exclusively on her website.
O'Connor released two songs from her album Theology to download for free from her official website: "If You Had a Vineyard" and "Jeremiah (Something Beautiful)". The album, a collection of covered and original Rastafari spiritual songs, was released in June 2007. The first single from the album, the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber classic "I Don't Know How to Love Him", was released on 30 April 2007. To promote the album, O'Connor toured extensively in Europe and North America. She also appeared on two tracks of the Ian Brown album The World Is Yours, including the anti-war single "Illegal Attacks".
2010s
In January 2010, O'Connor performed a duet with the R&B singer Mary J. Blige produced by former A Tribe Called Quest member Ali Shaheed Muhammad of O'Connor's song "This Is To Mother You" (first recorded by O'Connor on her 1997 Gospel Oak EP). The proceeds of the song's sales were donated to the organisation GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). In 2012 the song "Lay Your Head Down", written by Brian Byrne and Glenn Close for the soundtrack of the film Albert Nobbs and performed by O'Connor, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.
In 2011, O'Connor worked on recording a new album, titled Home, to be released in the beginning of 2012, titled How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?, with the first single being "The Wolf is Getting Married". She planned an extensive tour in support of the album but suffered a serious breakdown between December 2011 and March 2012, resulting in the tour and all her other musical activities for the rest of 2012 being cancelled. O'Connor resumed touring in 2013 with The Crazy Baldhead Tour. The second single "4th and Vine" was released on 18 February 2013.
In February 2014, it was revealed that O'Connor had been recording a new album of original material, titled The Vishnu Room, consisting of romantic love songs. In early June 2014, the new album was retitled I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss, with an 11 August release date. The title derives from the Ban Bossy campaign that took place earlier the same year. The album's first single is entitled "Take Me to Church".
In November 2014, O'Connor's management was taken over by Simon Napier-Bell and Björn de Water. On 15 November, O'Connor joined the charity supergroup Band Aid 30 along with other British and Irish pop acts, recording a new version of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?" at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, to raise money for the West African Ebola virus epidemic.
In 2017, O'Connor changed her legal name to Magda Davitt, saying she wished to be free of "patriarchal slave names" and "parental curses". In September 2019, she performed live for the first time in five years, singing "Nothing Compares 2 U" with the Irish Chamber Orchestra on RTÉ's The Late Late Show.
2020–2023: Memoir and death of son
O'Connor released a cover of Mahalia Jackson's "Trouble of the World" in October 2020, with proceeds from the single to benefit Black Lives Matter charities. O'Connor released the memoir Rememberings on 1 June 2021 to positive reviews, listed among the best books of the year on BBC Culture. The Irish postal service An Post released a postage stamp on 15 July 2021 bearing an image of O'Connor singing.
O'Connor announced in June 2021 that the album No Veteran Dies Alone would be her last, and that she was retiring from music. She retracted the statement days later, describing it as "a knee-jerk reaction" to an insensitive interview, and announced that her scheduled 2022 tour would go ahead. O'Connor's son Shane died by suicide at the age of 17 on 7 January 2022. O'Connor canceled her tour and No Veteran Dies Alone was postponed indefinitely. According to the producer David Holmes, by the time of O'Connor's death in 2023, the album was "emotional and really personal" and was complete but for one song.
In February 2023, O'Connor shared a version of "The Skye Boat Song", a 19th-century Scottish adaptation of a 1782 Gaelic song, which is also the theme for the fantasy drama series Outlander. The following month she was awarded the inaugural Choice Music Prize Classic Irish Album by the Irish broadcaster RTÉ for her 1990 album I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. In September 2023, BBC Television drama series The Woman in the Wall, which focuses on the Irish Magdalene Laundries, played an unreleased O'Connor song, "The Magdalene Song". The song had been given to the series producers by O'Connor shortly before her death.
Personal life
Marriages and children
O'Connor's first son, Jake, was born on 16 June 1987. His father was the music producer John Reynolds, who co-produced several of O'Connor's albums, including Universal Mother. O'Connor married Reynolds at Westminster Register Office in March 1989. She had an abortion the same year, and later wrote the song "My Special Child" about the experience. The couple announced their plan to divorce in November 1991 after having been separated for some time.
In September 1995, O'Connor announced that she was pregnant by her friend, the Irish columnist John Waters. Their daughter, Brigidine Roisin Waters, generally known as Roisin, was born on 6 March 1996. Soon after the birth, the pair began a long custody battle that ended in 1999 with O'Connor agreeing to let Roisin live with Waters in Dublin.
In August 2001, O'Connor married the British journalist Nick Sommerlad in Wales. Their marriage ended after 11 months, in July 2002, when they mutually agreed to part. By February 2003, the marriage was reportedly over and Sommerlad had moved back home to the United Kingdom. O'Connor gave birth to her third child, son Shane, on 10 March 2004; his father was the Irish musician Dónal Lunny. Her fourth child, son Yeshua, was born on 19 December 2006, fathered by Frank Bonadio. The pair remained on good terms after separating in early 2007.
O'Connor was married a third time on 22 July 2010, to her longtime friend and collaborator Steve Cooney. They separated in March 2011. She was married a fourth time on 9 December 2011, to the Irish therapist Barry Herridge; they wed in Las Vegas and the marriage ended after they had "lived together for 7 days only". On 3 January 2012, O'Connor said that she and Herridge had reunited. In February 2014, she stated that they had not divorced and were planning to renew their wedding vows, but two weeks later they decided not to do so. O'Connor's first grandson was born on 18 July 2015, to her son Jake and his girlfriend.
O'Connor's 17-year-old son Shane was found dead from suicide in January 2022. O'Connor, who had lost custody of Shane in 2013, said he had recently been on suicide watch at Tallaght Hospital. She criticised the Health Service Executive (HSE) for their handling of her son's case. A week after her son's death, O'Connor admitted herself to a hospital to receive help for her own mental health struggles.
Other relationships
O'Connor stated that she had a relationship with her manager Fachtna Ó Ceallaigh immediately after her marriage to John Reynolds and during the tour of The Lion and The Cobra. The extra-conjugal relationship ended in 1989 when O'Connor discovered that Ceallaigh was secretly having an affair with another woman. This experience is reflected in O'Connor's song The Last Day of Our Acquaintance.
Anthony Kiedis of the Red Hot Chili Peppers claimed he had a relationship with O'Connor in 1990 and wrote the song "I Could Have Lied" about the experience. O'Connor denied this, saying "I never had a relationship with him, ever. I hung out with him a few times and the row we had was because he suggested we might become involved. I don't give a shit about the song he wrote."
Between 1992 and 1993, O'Connor had an affair with British singer Peter Gabriel, whom she accompanied on his Secret World Tour in May 1993 and at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards in September. In October 1993, Sinéad O'Connor, at the age of 27, admitted to having attempted suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills as a reaction to Peter Gabriel's refusal to make their relationship permanent. This experience inspired her to write Thank You for Hearing Me.
In 2014, O'Connor said she "didn't get on at all" with Prince, the writer of "Nothing Compares 2 U". According to O'Connor, Prince demanded she visit him at his home and then chastised her for swearing in interviews, so she told him to "fuck off", at which point Prince became violent and she fled. In her memoir, O'Connor gave some details of Prince's behaviour, which ranged from having his butler serve up soup despite her repeatedly refusing it, to suggesting a pillow fight and then hitting her with a hard object placed in a pillowcase, and stalking her with his car after she had left the mansion.
Homes
In 2007, O'Connor bought a large Victorian seafront house in Bray, County Wicklow, near Dublin. She sold the property in 2021, after moving temporarily to her holiday home. She later lived at a house in the Kilglass/Scramogue area, between Strokestown and Roosky, County Roscommon, and on the main street of Knockananna, County Wicklow, which she sold in 2022. She later also had a home in Dalkey, a south-east suburb of Dublin. In early 2023, she moved to a flat in London to feel "less lonely", and said she would soon finish her new album.
Sexuality
In a 2000 interview in Curve, O'Connor said that she was a lesbian. She later retracted the statement, and in 2005 told Entertainment Weekly "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay".
In 2013, O'Connor published an open letter on her own website to American singer and actress Miley Cyrus in which she warned Cyrus of the treatment of women in the music industry and stated that sexuality is a factor in this, which was in response to Cyrus's music video for her song "Wrecking Ball". Cyrus responded by mocking O'Connor and alluding to her mental health problems. After O'Connor's death, Cyrus publicly apologised for her behaviour.
Politics
O'Connor was a vocal supporter of a united Ireland, and called on the left-wing republican Sinn Féin party to be "braver". O'Connor called for the "demolition" of the Republic of Ireland and its replacement with a new, united country. She also called for key Sinn Féin politicians like Gerry Adams to step down because "they remind people of violence", referring to the Troubles.
In 2014, she refused to play in Israel as an act of protest against what she thought was unjust treatment of Palestinians, stating that "Let's just say that, on a human level, nobody with any sanity, including myself, would have anything but sympathy for the Palestinian plight".
In a 2015 interview with the BBC, O'Connor said she wished that Ireland had remained under British rule (which ended after the Irish War of Independence, except for Northern Ireland), saying "the church took over and it was disastrous". Following the Brexit referendum in 2016, O'Connor wrote on Facebook "Ireland is officially no longer owned by Britain".
Religion
In contradiction with Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women, O'Connor was ordained in 1999 by Michael Cox, bishop of an Independent Catholic church. The bishop offered her ordination following her appearance on RTÉ's The Late Late Show, during which she told presenter Gay Byrne that had she not been a singer she would have wished to have been a Catholic priest. O'Connor adopted the religious name Mother Bernadette Mary.
In a July 2007 interview with Christianity Today, O'Connor stated that she considered herself a Christian and that she believed in core Christian concepts about the Trinity and Jesus Christ. She said, "I think God saves everybody whether they want to be saved or not. So when we die, we're all going home I don't think God judges anybody. He loves everybody equally." In an October 2002 interview, she credited her Christian faith in giving her the strength to live through and overcome the effects of her childhood abuse.
On 26 March 2010, O'Connor appeared on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360° to speak out about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Ireland. On 28 March 2010, she had an opinion piece published in the Sunday edition of The Washington Post in which she wrote about the scandal and her time in a Magdalene laundry as a teenager. Writing for the Sunday Independent she labelled the Vatican as "a nest of devils" and called for the establishment of an "alternative church", opining that "Christ is being murdered by liars" in the Vatican. Shortly after the election of Pope Francis, she said:
Well, you know, I guess I wish everyone the best, and I don't know anything about the man, so I'm not going to rush to judge him on one thing or another, but I would say he has a scientifically impossible task, because all religions, but certainly the Catholic Church, is really a house built on sand, and it's drowning in a sea of conditional love, and therefore it can't survive, and actually the office of Pope itself is an anti-Christian office, the idea that Christ needs a representative is laughable and blasphemous at the same time, therefore it is a house built on sand, and we need to rescue God from religion, all religions, they've become a smokescreen that distracts people from the fact that there is a holy spirit, and when you study the Gospels you see the Christ character came to tell us that we only need to talk directly to God, we never needed Religion ...
Asked whether from her point of view, it is therefore irrelevant who is elected to be pope, O'Connor replied:
Genuinely I don't mean disrespect to Catholic people because I believe in Jesus Christ, I believe in the Holy Spirit, all of those, but I also believe in all of them, I don't think it cares if you call it Fred or Daisy, you know? Religion is a smokescreen, it has everybody talking to the wall. There is a Holy Spirit who can't intervene on our behalf unless we ask it. Religion has us talking to the wall. The Christ character tells us himself: you must only talk directly to the Father; you don't need intermediaries. We all thought we did, and that's ok, we're not bad people, but let's wake up God was there before religion; it's there despite religion; it'll be there when religion is gone.
Tatiana Kavelka wrote about O'Connor's later Christian work, describing it as "theologically charged yet unorthodox, oriented toward interfaith dialogue and those on the margins". In August 2018, via an open letter, she asked Pope Francis to issue a certificate of excommunication to her, as she had also asked Pope Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II.
In October 2018, O'Connor converted to Islam, calling it "the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian's journey". The ceremony was conducted in Ireland by Sunni Islamic theologian Shaykh Umar Al-Qadri. She also changed her name to Shuhada' Davitt. In a message on Twitter, she thanked fellow Muslims for their support and uploaded a video of herself reciting the adhan, the Islamic call to prayer. She also posted photos of herself wearing a hijab. She later changed her surname from Davitt to Sadaqat.
After her conversion to Islam, Sadaqat called those who were not Muslims "disgusting" and criticised Christian and Jewish theologians on Twitter in November 2018. She wrote: "What I'm about to say is something so racist I never thought my soul could ever feel it. But truly I never wanna spend time with white people again (if that's what non-muslims are called). Not for one moment, for any reason. They are disgusting." Two days later, she tweeted that anyone who is not Muslim is "mentally ill". Later that month, Sadaqat stated that her remarks were made in an attempt to force Twitter to close down her account. In September 2019, she apologised for the remarks, saying "They were not true at the time and they are not true now. I was triggered as a result of Islamophobia dumped on me. I apologize for hurt caused. That was one of many crazy tweets lord knows."
Health
In the early 2000s, O'Connor revealed that she suffered from fibromyalgia. The pain and fatigue she experienced caused her to take a break from music from 2003 to 2005.
On an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show broadcast on 4 October 2007, O'Connor disclosed that she had attempted suicide on her 33rd birthday, 8 December 1999, and that she had since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. However, on an episode of Oprah: Where Are They Now? broadcast on 9 February 2014, she said that three "second opinions" had all found her not to be bipolar.
In August 2015, she announced that she was to undergo a hysterectomy after suffering gynaecological problems for over three years. She later blamed the hospital's refusal to administer hormone replacement therapy after the operation as the main reason for her mental health issues in subsequent years, stating "I was flung into surgical menopause. Hormones were everywhere. I became very suicidal. I was a basket case."
Having smoked cannabis for 30 years, O'Connor went to a rehabilitation centre in 2016, to end her addiction. She stated in February 2020 that she was agoraphobic. She had also previously been diagnosed with complex post-traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder.
In August 2017, O'Connor posted a 12-minute video on her Facebook page in which she stated that she had felt alone since losing custody of her 13-year-old son, Shane, and that for the previous two years she had wanted to kill herself, with only her doctor and psychiatrist "keeping her alive". The month after her Facebook post, O'Connor appeared on the 16th-season debut episode of American television talk show Dr. Phil. According to the show's host, Phil McGraw, O'Connor wanted to do the interview because she wished to "destigmatise mental illness", noting the prevalence of mental health problems among musicians. In 2021, O'Connor commented that she had spent much of the last six years in St Patrick's University Hospital in Dublin, and that she was grateful to them for helping her stay alive.
Death
O'Connor died on 26 July 2023 in her flat in Herne Hill, south London, at the age of 56. The cause of death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and bronchial asthma.
A private funeral was held on 8 August in Bray, County Wicklow. It was attended by the president of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, and O'Connor's family invited the public to pay their respects at the seafront where the funeral cortège passed. Thousands attended bearing signs and tributes; her burial was held privately at Dean's Grange Cemetery.
Tributes
Celebrities including BP Fallon, Janelle Monáe, Patton Oswalt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tori Amos, Bear McCreary, Massive Attack, Public Enemy, Amanda Palmer, and Toni Collette posted tributes on social media. English singer Morrissey wrote a tribute criticising the reaction from executives and celebrities, and wrote: "You praise her now only because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you."
American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers wrote a tribute to O'Connor in Rolling Stone, praising her integrity. In November 2023, Boygenius and Irish group Ye Vagabonds released a cover of the Scottish folk song "The Parting Glass" as a charity Christmas song and tribute to O'Connor.
On 9 January 2024, it was announced that a tribute concert for O'Connor and Shane MacGowan from The Pogues, who also died in 2023, would take place on 20 March in Carnegie Hall in New York City.
On 4 February 2024, Scottish singer and activist Annie Lennox paid tribute to O'Connor by performing "Nothing Compares 2 U" during the In Memoriam segment at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards. During the performance she had a tear painted on her cheek in homage to a similar scene in the song's music video. She was accompanied by Wendy & Lisa. Lennox ended the performance by calling for a cease-fire in the Israel–Hamas war and "peace in the world" which was also seen as a tribute to O'Connor's political outspokenness. In March 2024, a Bratz doll in O'Connor's likeness, to commemorate Women's History Month, was announced.
In popular culture
O'Connor was parodied as Niamh Connolly, a feminist singer, in "Rock a Hula Ted", an episode of the TV series Father Ted.
Discography
Main article: Sinéad O'Connor discography- The Lion and the Cobra (1987)
- I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got (1990)
- Am I Not Your Girl? (1992)
- Universal Mother (1994)
- Faith and Courage (2000)
- Sean-Nós Nua (2002)
- Throw Down Your Arms (2005)
- Theology (2007)
- How About I Be Me (and You Be You)? (2012)
- I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss (2014)
Filmography
Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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1990 | Hush-a-Bye Baby | Sinéad | also wrote the soundtrack |
1991 | The Ghosts of Oxford Street | Ann of Oxford Street | TV movie |
1992 | Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights | Emily Brontë | uncredited |
1997 | The Butcher Boy | Virgin Mary | |
2007 | 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s | Herself | miniseries |
2022 | Nothing Compares | Herself (voice) | documentary |
Awards
Year | Work | Association | Category | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1989 | The Lion and the Cobra | Grammy Awards | Best Female Rock Vocal Performance | Nominated | |
1990 | Herself | Rockbjörnen | Best Foreign Artist | Won | |
Billboard Music Awards | Rock Female Artist | Won | |||
"Nothing Compares 2 U" | No. 1 World Single | Won | |||
MTV Video Music Awards | Video of the Year | Won | |||
Best Female Video | Won | ||||
Best Post-Modern Video | Won | ||||
Breakthrough Video | Nominated | ||||
Viewer's Choice | Nominated | ||||
International Viewer's Choice (MTV Europe) | Nominated | ||||
1991 | Grammy Awards | Record of the Year | Nominated | ||
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance | Nominated | ||||
Best Music Video, Short Form | Nominated | ||||
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | Best Alternative Music Performance | Won | |||
Juno Awards | International Album of the Year | Nominated | |||
Herself | International Entertainer of the Year | Nominated | |||
American Music Awards | Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist | Nominated | |||
Brit Awards | International Female Solo Artist | Won | |||
Danish Music Awards | Foreign Female Artist of the Year | Won | |||
"Nothing Compares 2 U" | Foreign Hit of the Year | Won | |||
1992 | Year of the Horse | Grammy Awards | Best Music Video, Long Form | Nominated | |
1994 | "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" | MTV Video Music Awards | Best Video from a Film | Nominated | |
Herself | Goldene Europa Awards | Best International Singer | Won | ||
Žebřík Music Award | Best International Female | Nominated | |||
1995 | Brit Awards | International Female Solo Artist | Nominated | ||
"Fire on Babylon" | Grammy Awards | Best Music Video, Short Form | Nominated | ||
1996 | "Famine" | Nominated | |||
D&AD Awards | Pop Promo Video (Individual) | Wood Pencil | |||
2000 | "No Man's Woman" | Billboard Music Awards | Best Jazz/AC Clip of the Year | Nominated | |
Herself | Žebřík Music Award | Best International Female | Nominated | ||
2003 | "Troy" | International Dance Music Awards | Best Progressive House/Trance Track | Nominated | |
2004 | Herself | Meteor Music Awards | Best Irish Female | Nominated | |
2005 | Nominated | ||||
2006 | Nominated | ||||
2007 | Nominated | ||||
2008 | Nominated | ||||
2012 | "Lay Your Head Down" | World Soundtrack Awards | Best Original Song Written Directly for a Film | Won | |
"Queen of Denmark" | Rober Awards Music Poll | Best Cover Version | Nominated | ||
2013 | "GMF" (with John Grant) | Song of the Year | Nominated | ||
2015 | I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss | Meteor Choice Music Prize | Best Album | Nominated | |
"Take Me To Church" | Song of the Year | Nominated | |||
2023 | I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got | Irish Classic Album | Won | ||
2024 | Herself | Rock and Roll Hall of Fame | Performer | Nominated |
- "You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart", from the film In the Name of the Father (1993), was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1994. This nomination is credited to songwriters Bono, Gavin Friday, and Maurice Seezer.
- "Lay Your Head Down", from the film Albert Nobbs (2011), was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 2012. This nomination is credited to composer Brian Byrne and songwriter Glenn Close.
See also
Notes
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Further reading
- Guterman, Jimmy. Sinéad: Her Life and Music. Warner Books, 1991. ISBN 0-446-39254-5.
- Hayes, Dermott. Sinéad O'Connor: So Different. Omnibus Press, 1991. ISBN 0-7119-2482-1.
- Bertoncelli, Riccardo. Sinéad O'Connor. Giunti Editore, 1996. ISBN 8-8092-0911-7
- McCabe, Allyson. Why Sinéad O'Connor Matters, University of Texas Press, 2023. ISBN 978-1-4773-2570-4.
External links
- Official website
- Sinéad O'Connor at AllMusic
- Sinéad O'Connor discography at Discogs
- Sinéad O'Connor at IMDb
- Sinéad O'Connor: A life of faith and courage. TheJournal.ie. Published 27 July 2023.
- Sinéad O'Connor's life in pictures. BBC News. Published 27 July 2023.
- Front pages around the world mourn the death of Sinéad O'Connor. Irish Examiner. Published 27 July 2023.
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