Sinead o'connor wikipedia

O'Connor's memoir, Rememberings , was released in and became a bestseller. O'Connor drew attention to issues such as child abuse , human rights , racism, and women's rights. 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 , she adopted the name Shuhada' Sadaqat [ 1 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] while continuing to perform and record under her birth name. In her 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. 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. On 10 February , 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.

Her brother Joseph defended their father to the newspaper but agreed regarding their mother's "extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical". We can't communicate with each other. We are all in agony.

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I for one am in agony. She recorded a song with them called "Take My Hand" but they felt that at 15, she was too young to join the band. Together they recruited a few other members and formed a band, Ton Ton Macoute.