Many considered that O’Connor was vindicated by subsequent revelations about Vatican cover-ups of sexual abuse scandals. Sinead O'Connor releases stirring 'Trouble of the World' cover". IrishCentral. 4 October 2020 . Retrieved 27 July 2023. a b "RTÉ Choice Music Prize announces Classic Irish Album winner". RTÉ. 6 March 2023 . Retrieved 26 July 2023. In September 1995, O'Connor announced that she was pregnant by her friend, the Irish columnist John Waters. [144] Their daughter, Brigidine Roisin Waters, generally known as Roisin, was born on 6March 1996. [145] 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. [146] [141] [139]

Michaels, Sean (12 February 2013). "Sinead O'Connor congratulates pope on his 'greatest act' – resigning". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 27 July 2023 . Retrieved 27 July 2023. Rememberings, then, is a tremendous catalogue of female misbehaviour. Music memoirs tend to follow similar trajectories of ambition, success and depravity followed by regret and redemption. But O’Connor doesn’t do regret, and redemption isn’t required – at least not by her. She wanted to make a living as a performer but her idea of success wasn’t the same as other people’s. “I define success by whether I keep the contract I made with the Holy Spirit before I made one with the music business,” she explains. “I never signed anything that said I would be a good girl.” The writing is conversational and reveals O’Connor as self-deprecating, pragmatic and a sharp observer. She's funny, tooWe wandered into discussing how either of us might react if one or both of our parents died. That’s the other reason I knew when I saw my stepmother’s car. Blew my mind that something had told us the night before and I was finding out only now.

a b Hattenstone, Simon (29 May 2021). "Sinéad O'Connor: 'I'll always be a bit crazy, but that's OK' ". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 7 November 2021 . Retrieved 26 July 2023. Kalveks, Tatiana (2018). "Sinéad O'Connor: Priesthood of the Excluded". Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. 30 (3): 178–92. doi: 10.3138/jrpc.2017-0008. S2CID 150998288. Irish Times (29 July 2015). "The Secret Lives of Father Ted". Irish Times. Archived from the original on 29 July 2015 . Retrieved 24 October 2023. Sinéad O'Connor welcomes fourth child". People. 28 December 2006. Archived from the original on 8 September 2015 . Retrieved 30 November 2015. A US TV psychologist known as Dr Phil offered to pay for O’Connor’s therapy in exchange for an interview. As O’Connor tells it in an explanatory chapter, both the interview and the type of therapy proved ill-judged and re-traumatising.

If you're not interested in the music, this book is a raw taste of life in the too-often forgotten recent past of Ireland, including its war and violence. It also is a story of one woman's lifelong struggle with the simultaneous beauty and brutality of her Catholic faith, her inherent Irish-ness, and the trappings of fame, feminism, and motherhood. 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 Introducing Yeshua Francis Neil Bonadio". People. 5 January 2007. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014 . Retrieved 30 November 2015. Sinéad O'Connor in TV" (video). CNN. 26 March 2010. Archived from the original on 30 December 2010 . Retrieved 30 March 2010.

She signed to Ensign Records in 1985 and released her first album, The Lion and the Cobra, two years later. Its arrival saw her hailed as an important new singer-songwriter. The album cover alone – a shaved-bald O’Connor grimacing, fists raised – was markedly different from the female songwriter norm, and the stark, abrasive music experimented in a way that aligned her with Kate Bush and Björk. Five months before its release, she gave birth to her first child, Jake, whose father was John Reynolds, the drummer on the album. She and Reynolds married, and divorced in 1991 after four years.

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On 6 January 2022, O'Connor's 17-year-old son Shane was reported missing from Newbridge, County Kildare; he was found dead the next day, having died by suicide. His body was discovered by Gardaí in the Shankill to Bray area, south of Dublin. [155] [156] [157] O'Connor stated that her son, of whom she had lost custody in 2013, had been on suicide watch at Tallaght Hospital, and had "ended his earthly struggle". She criticised the Health Service Executive (HSE) for their handling of her son's case. [158] [155] [159] She initially criticised the Child and Family Agency, but retracted this a few days later. [160] [161] A week after her son's death, and following a series of tweets in which she indicated an intention to take her own life, O'Connor admitted herself to hospital. [162] Other relationships Zuras, Matthew (2 June 2014). "Sinéad O'Connor Looks Boss For Her Upcoming Album". refinery29.com. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014. Kelly, Aoife (18 November 2014). " 'I told him to f*** off' – Sinead O'Connor reveals she had punch-up with Prince". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 . Retrieved 18 November 2014. 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. [88] In Sean-Nós Nua, she covered a well-known Canadian folk song, " Peggy Gordon". [89]