Rememberings: Sinéad O'Connor

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Although O'Connor was nominated for four Grammys, she declined industry awards, asserting that they were too focused on commercial success, and not enough on artistic merit. When she was invited to perform on Saturday Night Live, O'Connor closed her set by tearing up a photo of Pope John Paul II, a gesture intended to draw attention to the Catholic church's complicity in perpetuating child abuse, already the subject of public discussion in her native Ireland. Sweeney, Ken (16 February 2011). "Nothing compares to you, Joe tells his sister Sinead". Independent.ie. Archived from the original on 26 July 2023 . Retrieved 26 July 2023. List of Grammy nominees". CNN. 4 January 1996. Archived from the original on 7 December 2012 . Retrieved 18 June 2010. Meteor Choice Irish song of the year 2014 nominees announced". The Irish Times. 27 January 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Harrison, Ellie (8 January 2022). "Sinéad O'Connor's son Shane dies, aged 17". The Independent. Archived from the original on 30 June 2022 . Retrieved 8 January 2022.

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. American singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers wrote a tribute to O'Connor in Rolling Stone, praising her integrity, [137] and in November 2023, supergroup Boygenius, made up of Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, and Irish group Ye Vagabonds released a cover of the Scottish folk song The Parting Glass as a charity Christmas song and tribute to the late O'Connor. [138] Personal life Marriages and children High Park Reformatory, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland". childrenshomes.org.uk . Retrieved 9 August 2023.

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Sinead takes divorce option". Irish Independent. 11 November 1991. p.5 . Retrieved 27 July 2023– via Irish Newspaper Archives. 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. [193] 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. [194] Rememberings offers O'Connor's very personal version of events, a tale of maternal and institutional abuse that might be a misery memoir, if it weren't related with such eccentric charm and cheery fortitude Daily Telegraph In a 2000 interview in Curve, O'Connor said that she was a lesbian. [183] She later retracted the statement, and in 2005 told Entertainment Weekly "I'm three-quarters heterosexual, a quarter gay". [184] Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Lion and the Cobra". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011 . Retrieved 18 March 2012.a b Sturges, Fiona (11 June 2021). "Rememberings by Sinéad O'Connor review – a tremendous catalogue of misbehaviour". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021 . Retrieved 4 August 2023. Home truths". IrishTimes.com. 8 August 2011. Archived from the original on 24 October 2012 . Retrieved 2 September 2011.