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Many will be aware of the recent death (presumably by suicide) of singer Sinéad O’Connor. I will not pretend to have been a huge fan of her music - I simply haven’t listened to enough of it to have an opinion - let alone her politics, her whole persona, or her approach to life. She always struck me as someone whose aggressive leftism, third-worldist sympathies, and hard-edged “protest singer” aesthetic were simply outward reflections of a profoundly internally unwell individual; certainly her life story bears this out, as she not only suffered from a cocktail of mental illnesses - BPD, bipolar, PTSD - but also debilitating fibromyalgia. She seems to have been merely one link in a long chain of hereditary dysfunction, with her mother having been a total basket case and her teenage son taking his own life just a year and a half before she herself did.
That being said, I’ve always found her rendition of the Irish nationalist folk ballad “The Foggy Dew” particularly haunting. That mournful, keening style seemed to be her strong suit as a vocalist, and it fits perfectly with the Irish folk tradition.
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