In 2018 O’Connor announced she had converted to Islam and changed her name to Shuhada’ Davitt, later Shuhada Sadaqat. For they tried to bury Sinead, and forgot she is a seed.” “She, a young woman, was what was needed back then, so let’s rip up more pictures, expose the corruption of men and women who have lost their souls to greed. She used her music to protest, to open our eyes, I hope the next generation will learn from her cries. ![]() “For Sinead, our sister, was always ahead of her time, love and human compassion perhaps her only crime. “Nothing compared to her and no-one came near, her voice was her weapon and her words are her spear. The world wasn’t ready for what she had to say, stifled by a church that hurts us to this day. “Truthful witness, fiery, fierce and bold to the core, goddess of 90s she bellowed her roar. “The industry wanted her to change who she was, so she shaved off her hair and broke unwritten laws. “She kicked down the barriers in her Doc Marten boots, bald-headed deliverer of unwanted truths,” the speaker read. The vigil heard a poem written in memory of O’Connor. She described O’Connor as “a free spirit… an incredible artist, an incredible lyricist and musician”. She always did what she thought was the right thing, she acted without consequence or without thought of what might happen to her.” She held our pain about the institutionalised sexual abuse, the threat of being sent… to a Magdalene laundry if you misbehaved, and she held that along with the courage that we weren’t able to fully live, and so when she died yesterday it felt like that part of us went with her.”Another added: “She stood up for people, she stood up for what was right. And after twenty years they laid In that tomb by him and her, His son George, the astrologer And Masons drove from miles away To scatter the Acacia spray Upon a. “She was saying things before we could say them. Five-and-twenty years have gone Since old William Pollexfen Laid his strong bones down in death By his wife Elizabeth In the grey stone tomb he made. ![]() So sorry.”Ī woman at the vigil spoke of the impact of O’Connor speaking out about institutional abuse, saying: “I don’t think I’ve ever cried so much for a stranger but I think she held bits of generations of this nation in her heart. Text on a mural of O’Connor outside Temple Bar reads: “Sinead you were right all along. The musician, who spent time in a notorious Magdalene laundry, set up to house “fallen women”, frequently spoke out about the child abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. She made headlines in 1992 when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on US TV show Saturday Night Live, sparking a ferocious backlash. ![]() Politicians, musicians, actors and charities from across the world have paid tribute to O’Connor for her contributions to the music industry and raising awareness of social issues.
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