Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds at 3Arena: Thrilling, pulsating and stunning performance from restless prince of gloom
Nick Cave: Interplay between singer and instrument-bashing foil Warren Ellis helps to drive this spectacular show
Sinéad O'Connor
Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor
Sharon Horgan: ‘I’m even more hyper now. That could be the hormones. I’m on a lot of testosterone’
Sharon Horgan on series two of Bad Sisters, grieving her father on set, coping with menopause and stretching her acting muscles
‘The script is Sinéad O’Connor – it’s the music’: Christeene on The Lion the Witch and The Cobra
The performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to Dublin
Gavin Friday: ‘Ireland wasn’t an easy place back then to go out and be the Virgin Prunes or U2’
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 Real Sinéad O’Connor by Ariane Sherine and Sinéad O’Connor: The Last Interview and Other Conversations - Two very different books
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
The night Kris Kristofferson defended Sinéad O’Connor on stage amid boos and jeers
Singer showed solidarity to O’Connor following her infamous Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992
Nick Cave: ‘Acceptance is tricky. Trying to get back to what you used to be, I consider a waste of time. You are fundamentally changed’
Ahead of the 18th Bad Seeds studio album, Cave shares expansive thoughts on grief, the ‘angel’ Shane MacGowan and the beauty of the world
Sinéad O’Connor died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, death certificate says
Irish artist and activist died in July 2023 aged 56 at her London home after police found her ‘unresponsive’
‘We can do better’: Sinéad O’Connor waxwork pulled after public outcry
The museum will instead launch a new project to ‘create a more accurate representation’ of the singer
Sinéad O’Connor’s waxwork looks nothing like the fiery young woman from 1990 it represents
Opinion: I don’t know what that is, but it sure as hell is not Sinéad O’Connor
Sinéad O’Connor waxwork: ‘You have to get the proportions right. That’s not easy, especially with ladies’
A new wax statue of the singer was unveiled at the National Wax Museum, to mark the anniversary of her death
Irish female artists make up just 2% of most-played songs on Irish radio in past year – report
Jazzy and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries were the only women in the top 100 songs played
Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan: ‘Taylor Swift is one of the most gifted pop artists of all time’
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
15 of the most memorable moments at Irish festivals, from Sinéad O’Connor and Beyoncé to Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave
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?
St Vincent: ‘I recently did an ancestry.com thing, and it was all Irish Catholics. That’s my rascal side’
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
What Ireland Can Teach the World About Music: showing the magical power of musicians to soundtrack our lives and times
Insightful essays excavate the magic of music in Ireland and its creative realm
Sinéad O’Connor: Pantsless queer horrorcore act evokes seance and celebration in New York tribute to late singer
Queer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitards
Sinéad O’Connor’s daughter sings Nothing Compares 2 U at New York tribute
Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall
Karl Wallinger, frontman of World Party and Sinead O’Connor collaborator, dies at 66
Welsh-born musician and songwriter penned songs including Ship of Fools and Put the Message in the Box
Sinéad O’Connor estate demands music is not used at Trump rallies
Estate says O’Connor, who died last July aged 56, would have been ‘disgusted, hurt, and insulted’
Sinéad O’Connor nominated for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Singer, who died last July, is among 15 artists who have been nominated this year
Meredith Monk: ‘What I love about Ireland is that there is still a belief in magic’
The New York-born artist, who is about to give a rare Irish performance, has reinvented vocalisation from the ground up and inside out
James Dyson’s Irish bolthole, Sinéad O’Connor’s painting addiction and Barry Keoghan’s inner wolf
Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace
Andy White: Good Luck I Hope You Make It – Poetic reflections on a world gone stark raving mad
The Northern Irish singer-songwriter goes back to his roots for this intriguing mix of mongrel folk and spoken word
Sinéad O’Connor died of natural causes, says London coroner
Sinéad O’Connor’s body was found in a flat near Brixton last July, weeks after the Irish singer-songwriter moved to London
Sinéad review: O’Connor’s life story told with honesty and without pretension
Television: Dignified RTÉ profile of singer, featuring contributions from Imelda May, Christy Moore and more, tells story honestly and without pretension
Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
The most-read stories of 2023: From the deaths of Irish musical heroes to riots in the capital
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
What were the most-read articles on irishtimes.com in 2023?
Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Dublin riots and RTÉ pay scandal were just some of the stories to hold readers’ attention this year
Irish writers, thespians and thinkers are having a renaissance
It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil
BP Fallon on his photo of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor ‘having a vibe’ in 1988
Their record Haunted, sung by MacGowan and O’Connor in 1995, is now a classic
David Holmes: ‘I was able to see the real Sinéad O’Connor. She was fiercely intelligent, ridiculously funny’
The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer
Matthew Perry spent millions on beating addiction, and we expect people to do it through stigma and willpower?
Emer McLysaght: Matthew Perry was our friend too. To have such a cultural impact on a whole generation is truly astounding
Radie Peat of Øxn: ‘I love murder ballads. I’m not mad about the fact it’s always men murdering women’
The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and Percolator
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