'Never Get Old': Sinéad O'Connor Dead at 56

PJ Media ^ | 26 July 2023 | Stephen Green

[Rummyfan]

Such a striking voice, such a talented songwriter, such a troubled individual, Sinéad O’Connor is dead at the age of 56.

O’Connor’s cause of death hasn’t been announced as I write these words but I reacted to the news with the same utter lack of surprise when George Michael died on Christmas Day, 2016. Apparently deeply unhappy, Michael had been casually working towards ending it all with a combination of drugs and anonymous sex. With her troubled history, it was my sad conclusion 30 years ago that O’Connor would not live a terribly long life.

She hit the big time with her 1990 cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” from her second album, “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”

[rlmorel]

That is a truly wonderful and thoughtful gesture!

[Albion Wilde]

She was nuts but very talented which happens a lot.

Yep. The reverse in her case, though, and many others—it starts with the great talent, intelligence or sensitivity and if mistreated, which was the case in Sinead's family from a terrorizing mother, the insanity grows from there.

A great book was written about this syndrome:

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
“The bestselling book on childhood trauma and the enduring effects of repressed anger and pain.”

[1Old Pro]

She was nuts but very talented which happens a lot.

Yep, when mental illness is so widespread it will affect all walks of life.

[Albion Wilde]

No Second Troy By William Butler Yeats

I can see why she loved Yeats.

PoemAnalysis.com: No Second Troy by William Butler Yeats

Gonne (left) and Yeats (right)

[Flying Circus]

Are you sure about that? I always though Enya was more in the “Spiritual, not religious” camp.

[Celtic Conservative]

Until just a few years ago she sang at the parish church in her home town at Christmas. The only reason she quit was due to unruly fans.

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