"By the time Sinéad O’Connor sang this (1992) some 70,000 children had been sexually abused by Catholic priests & brothers in Ireland. The state, media, bishops, cardinals & pope had covered it up. She was scorned.

"It would be a year before homosexuality was decriminalised in the Irish theocracy, 4 years before divorce was legalised & 20 years before abortion was legalised. It would be 6 years before the last monstrous Mother & Baby Home was closed.

"That shocked silence of the NYC audience & the vitriol of the Irish & US media afterwards still stay with me. Two thousand years ago she would have been thought a prophet."
-- Dr. Robert Bohan, Dublin, Ireland. (Via the bird app)

"She took Ireland screaming and kicking into the modern era."

She was right. All along, she was right.

She was also an astonishing singer, an astonishing musician.

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