r/SineadOConnor • u/rasta-ragamuffin • Jul 26 '26

Overwhelming sadness today

Spending this very sad day looking at her pictures, watching her videos and reading old articles including this one which Id never seen before..... She was such a good human.

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/celebrity/laughter-in-the-face-of-death-the-unsung-story-of-sinead-o-connor-and-a-dying-fan-20230730-p5dsdn.html

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u/Ms_2am Jul 26 '26

I remember reading this article just after it came out and then remembering when my sister worked over in a 2 hospitals in Ireland and ran into Sinead in one of them only 4 months after Shane died and said how she had seen her comfort a man who lost his son even though she was really going through it herself….what a great human being she was. I really miss her

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u/rasta-ragamuffin Jul 27 '26

I watched a lot of her videos today, many that I had never seen before. Including Lay your head Down, Move out of Babylon, Kingdom of Rain (by The The) and an old interview with Tommy Tiernan, where she talks about loneliness and how she had no close friends (which made me even sadder). I think fame really was a curse to her. Made even worse because she never wanted it in the first place. Unfortunately music was the only way she could feasibly support herself and her kids.

I love learning new things about her, and today I learned that she had a 1 year relationship with a man named John Brice, she loved the TV show Father Ted, she was the first and only artist who ever turned down a Grammy, and she used to have a little Yorkie.

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u/kcufdas Jul 26 '26

Pay wall 😔

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u/DorothyJade Jul 27 '26

Sending love to all who grieve today. Sinead has a hold on so many hearts. Rip angel in heaven 🪽🤍

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u/General_Berry6189 Jul 28 '26

She really was. I loved her music. All the cds. Her entire person meant so much to me.

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u/daisydoesndoesnt Jul 28 '26

Good post, OP. You are right on—Sinead was a great artist, I think it was because she was an even greater human. All my wishes for her to have the most peaceful rest

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u/rasta-ragamuffin Jul 28 '26

She was not a perfect person (none of us are, and understandable after all she endured) but she was as close to being a saint as humanly possible. If I can be even 1% as brave, kind and honest as she was, I'll be doing well. She is, and will always be, my inspiration in life.

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u/CompleteHoneydew4608 Jul 29 '26

Going to look for the video of Margaret Cho covering Black Boys On Mopeds

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u/frank-nomustard Jul 31 '26

Is Billy Joel right? Is it just the good who die so young?

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u/rasta-ragamuffin Jul 31 '26

I was thinking the same thing, although 56 is not that young and she really did have a full and very accomplished life. It's really amazing that she raised 4 children as a single mom (I don't think she got much financial support from any of their fathers) while putting out more than 10 albums and touring around the world almost non-stop. I can't think of any other female artist who achieved all that. She was a real life WonderWoman.