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Sinead O’Connor has died

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Re: Sinead O’Connor has died

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Post by ngc7293 »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #6
JAM1971 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

She lost her son of 17 years only 5 months ago. With no additional details, I know where my mind goes. Edit: whatever article I read said 5 months ago, but that appears to have been written some time ago. Plenty of articles stating that Shane died in Jan/2022: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=shane+oconnor+wikipedia&ia=...

...Where does it go?

> Shane died in January 2022. A week later, following a series of tweets in which she indicated that she was going to kill herself, O'Connor was hospitalised.

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Re: Sinead O’Connor has died

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Post by AlecSchueler »

She'll be missed. As a youngster growing up in Ireland she not only gave a voice to all of us who wanted to reject the influence of the church, which had only become more entrenched throughout the conflict, but also to the women of this island who had been previously silenced for centuries.

If anyone is interested more in feminist voices from the conflict in Ireland I can highly recommend the 1981 film Maeve. The idea of women being a "third side" in the whole conflict who had never been given voice was incredibly eye opening to me as a man moving into my 30s and changed my perspective not only on Irish history but entire history of Europe and the Middle East.

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Post by david927 »

The first time I heard the song -- and saw the video -- to "Nothing Compares 2 U" and the screen is nothing but her face and at one point there are tears, and she blares that unreal voice, I think I stopped breathing.

She will be missed.

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