#rest in peace sinead O’Connor

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Nothing Compares by Sinead O'Connor (RIP)

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Remembering Sinead o’connor: Tribute to the Iconic Singer Who Passed Away at 56

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“This caused controversy” is an incredible understatement.

O’Connor was ahead of her time and consistently spoke out on issues related to child abuse, human rights, anti-racism, organized religion, social injustice, mental illnesses, and women's rights. But in specifically calling out the Catholic Church for its systemic culture of covering up child sexual abuse and protecting abuser priests, her career was effectively derailed by the media.

She unflinchingly spoke truth to power.

“I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.” —Sinead O’Connor

Rest in Peace 🕊️

[littlebydigital]

🎤 

“God is something that needs rescuing from religion.”

To the absolute legend,

A woman whose brave prescience never wavered against abuse 

Hope you find all the peace that life stole from you.

Rest easy, Sinead O’Connor.

Shuhada Sadaqat, Inna Iillahi wa inna alayhi rajioon 🤲🏽

You will never ever be forgotten. 

[iheartfionaapple1]

rest in peace sinead o’connor

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Albert Watson photograph “Sinead O’Connor with Angel, New York City, 1992.” RIP. :: [ALBERT WATSON]

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Howdy Horn Honkers.

I'll be honest when I tell you that I didn't think Lisa Marie Presley would make it two years after her son Benjamin killed himself.

As I read the headlines of Ben's tragic death in 2020 my heart sank to my shoes as I thought, "Oh my God, we're gonna lose Lisa." She will not come through this, I thought to myself.

Some things are not endurable.

She made it two and a half hellish years before she left. I don't care what the autopsy results of a bereaved mother say, the loss of a child through suicide is a body blow you may never get up from, and if you do, you will never step through the world the same way again.

You're not the same height after going through deep grief as you were before. It takes inches off your body, it steals chunks of your brain, it eviscerates your soul.

I thought the same thing about Sinead O'Connor when her 17-year-old son Shane died by suicide in January 2022.

"We're gonna lose her," I thought.

Oh shit. We're gonna lose her.

Some things are not endurable.

I watched my own mother after my brother Michael died by suicide when I was 15 and he was 24. I was the only other family member at home when he shot himself in the head. My parents were at the market.

To this day, and through the lens of many years, I do not know how my introverted, sweet, sensitive, mother survived.

I don't.

Her son's suicide took her to a place that was so deep, depressing, so dark, so intensely painful, it was 10 years before she could say my brother's name again out loud.

Ten years.

She stopped raising me when my brother died. She cared for me and made sure I had what I needed, she always loved me deeply, but she could no longer raise me. Same for my dad. I was a teenager and my parents were ghosts in the house.

No blame. They were just trying to survive and to make sure their youngest child, your faithful correspondent, did as well.

The world had stopped for us, came to a screeching halt, and we were expected to go on.

Survival is a whole other mindset, though.

Normal life, whatever that is, vanishes and the daily grind of survival is rough stuff. It wears the soul down in the most gruesomely painful ways. You have no skin. No ability to protect yourself. You are the most vulnerable person in the civilized world and you'd never make it in the wild.

Some things are not endurable. Just remember that.

To the people reunited through death, I know it's what you wanted while you stumbled through this mortal coil.

Rest in reunited peace. And all the love.

All the love.

[Therra Gwyn Jaramillo]

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SINEAD O’CONNOR IRISH SINGER, ACTIVIST AND ICON PASSES AT 56

Irish singer and activist Sinéad O'Connor has died at the aged of 56.

In a statement, the singer's family said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Sinéad.

"Her family and friends are devastated and have requested privacy at this very difficult time."

She was best known for her single Nothing Compares 2 U, released in 1990, which went on to hit number one around the world.

Rest In Peace

[krispyweiss]

Former Smiths Bassist Andy Rourke Dies at 59

- “My mate was one of those rare people that absolutely no one doesn’t like,” Johnny Marr says

Andy Rourke, former bassist for the Smiths, has died.

The musician died May 19 “after a lengthy illness with pancreatic cancer,” per a statement on his social media pages.

“Andy will be remembered as a kind and beautiful soul by those who knew him and as a supremely gifted musician by music fans,” the statement said.

Rourke was 59.

“May Andy Rourke rest in peace and love,” Todd Rundgren’s Spirit of Harmony Foundation said.

Billy Bragg eulogized Rourke as “a lovely guy and an amazing bass player;” Simon Raymonde remembered him as “a fellow bassist of fine pedigree.”

Rourke played with the Smiths throughout their 1982-’87 run. He was also a member of Freebass and D.A.R.K. and recorded with former Smiths frontman Morrissey, Sinead O’Connor and the Pretenders and toured with Badly Drawn Boy.

His final appearance was in September 2022 with former Smiths bandmate Johnny Marr, who remembered “my mate (as) one of those rare people that absolutely no one doesn’t like,” in a statement on social media.

Marr said Rourke “reinvented what it is to be a bass guitar player,” during their time as Smiths.

“Well done, Andy,” Marr said. “We’ll miss you, brother.”

5/19/23

[hisnhers]

oh my go d rest in peace sinead o’connor wtf :((

[projectourworld]

Sinead O’Conner on being herself. Entertainment Magazine.

“I never let any of the negativity of Catholicism make me think that there was no God. The very purpose of that negativity is to make people think there's no God. They've achieved it so successfully that if you tell people you believe in God they think you're f---ing crazy. I never fell out of love with God. I never intended to practice any religion, but when I discovered Islam, Sinead converted in 2018, I found myself home. As a Muslim I still think God and religion are two different things. When you study the Quran, you see that God sees religion as a tool of the devil as well.”

Picture: Sinead O’Connor receives the Classic Irish Album award for I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got at the RTÉ Choice music prize in Dublin in 2023. Photo: Kieran Frost/Redferns Rest in Heavenly peace Sinead #sineadoconner #rip

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She will be remembered for having the spine to take on the abuse of the Catholic Church. Joe Pesci...will be remembered...for who in the hell is Joe Pesci? Rest in peace Sinead, a true Celt.

The night Sinead O’Connor took on the pope on television

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Sinead O’Connor

Her voice was one of very few “pretty” things that managed to strike a chord with me at an extremely ugly time in my life. And, as it turned out, she was way ahead of the curve (to the point of being almost prophetic) with her protest of catholic sex abuse… Turns out that wound up being kind of a big fucking deal huh? Shame that being right before anyone wanted to hear it played so much havoc with her life and career.

Rest in Peace. And seriously fuck the Catholic Church.

[cancmbyn]

The voice of an entire generation has died.

Rest in peace and power Shuhada’ Davitt aka Sinead O’Connor.

[yiey]

rest in peace Sinead O’Connor 🕊️

[lilithfair]

came back to tumblr today to dig through my archive for old pics I reblogged of sinead o’connor. rest in peace queen

[trendfilmsetter]

Rest in Peace to some of the talented individuals we lost in the film industry this year 2023.

🙏🙏🙏🙏

- Lisa Marie Presley

- Richard Roundtree

- Lance Reddick

- Bob Barker

- Matthew Perry

- Andre Braugher

- Ron Cephas Jones

- Tony Bennett

- Sinead O’Connor

- Miiko Evans

- Tim Barlow

- Annie Wersching

- Lisa Loring

- Cindy Williams

- Cody Anthony

- Raquel Welch

- Earl Boen

- Adam Rich

- Dorothy Tristan

- Annette McCarthy

- Ben Masters

- Carole Cook

- Richard Belzer

- Lee Whitlock

- Tom Sizemore

- Peter Hardy

- Garn Stephens

- Harry Belafonte

- Jerry Springer

- Giovanni Lombardo Radice

- Helmut Berger

- Ray Stevenson

- Marlene Clark

- John Beasley

- Paul Geoffrey

- Lew Palter

- Andrea Evans

- Phyllis Applegate

- Arthur Schmidt

- Darren Kent

- Burt Young

- Tyler Christopher

- Conny Van Dyke

- Norman Lear

- James McCaffrey

- Mike Nussbaum

- Richard Franklin

- Selma Archerd