Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor
The multidisciplinary Dublin artist is part of the exhibition Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body, at Photo Museum Ireland and has designed three new T-shirts for Medical Aid for Palestinians
Teenage son of musicians Sinéad O’Connor and Dónal Lunny died by suicide in January 2022
Son of musicians Sinéad O’Connor and Dónal Lunny absconded from Tallaght University Hospital less than 24 hours before his death on January 7th, 2022
Nick Cave: Interplay between singer and instrument-bashing foil Warren Ellis helps to drive this spectacular show
Sharon Horgan on series two of Bad Sisters, grieving her father on set, coping with menopause and stretching her acting muscles
The performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to Dublin
Ecce Homo, the singer’s new album, is not just the best record of his significant solo career but also an account of a life less ordinary
The first is a tabloid-style litany of mayhem offering little insight; the second presents a much more rounded picture of a woman who was far too often stereotyped and scorned
Singer showed solidarity to O’Connor following her infamous Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992
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Irish artist and activist died in July 2023 aged 56 at her London home after police found her ‘unresponsive’
The museum will instead launch a new project to ‘create a more accurate representation’ of the singer
Opinion: I don’t know what that is, but it sure as hell is not Sinéad O’Connor
A new wax statue of the singer was unveiled at the National Wax Museum, to mark the anniversary of her death
Jazzy and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries were the only women in the top 100 songs played
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan knows what it’s like to face a backlash. In Sinéad O’Connor, he says, he has also seen music at its purest
It’s summer festival time again. As we retrieve our wellies and thermal sleeping bags, what better moment to rank great Irish highlights of the past?
Annie Clark’s ever-morphing, visionary pop has won her consistent acclaim. She’s now inspiring young artists from The Last Dinner Party to Olivia Rodrigo
Insightful essays excavate the magic of music in Ireland and its creative realm
Queer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitards
Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall
Welsh-born musician and songwriter penned songs including Ship of Fools and Put the Message in the Box
Estate says O’Connor, who died last July aged 56, would have been ‘disgusted, hurt, and insulted’
Singer, who died last July, is among 15 artists who have been nominated this year
The New York-born artist, who is about to give a rare Irish performance, has reinvented vocalisation from the ground up and inside out
Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace
The Northern Irish singer-songwriter goes back to his roots for this intriguing mix of mongrel folk and spoken word
Sinéad O’Connor’s body was found in a flat near Brixton last July, weeks after the Irish singer-songwriter moved to London
Television: Dignified RTÉ profile of singer, featuring contributions from Imelda May, Christy Moore and more, tells story honestly and without pretension
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
IT Sunday: Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Dublin riots and RTÉ pay scandal were just some of the stories to hold readers’ attention this year
Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Dublin riots and RTÉ pay scandal were just some of the stories to hold readers’ attention this year
It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil
Their record Haunted, sung by MacGowan and O’Connor in 1995, is now a classic
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