Goldene Europa 94". Chronik der ARD (in German). 3 December 1994. Archived from the original on 19 June 2021 . Retrieved 28 July 2023. Owoseje, Toyin (18 July 2015). "Sinead O'Connor becomes a grandmother after her son Jake Reynolds welcomes a baby boy". International Business Times. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016 . Retrieved 14 March 2016. By the mid-1990s, she'd stopped making hit records, but she never stopped making music. In addition to songs of her own invention, O'Connor restyled Irish folk songs, reggae, and religious music. She brought her unique sensibilities to music made famous by others, artist collaborations, songs made for films and efforts to support human rights. In August 2015, she announced that she was to undergo a hysterectomy after suffering gynaecological problems for over three years. [174] She later blamed the hospital's refusal to administer hormone replacement therapy after the operation as the main reason for her mental health issues in subsequent years, stating "I was flung into surgical menopause. Hormones were everywhere. I became very suicidal. I was a basket case." [175] a b c Retter, Emily (17 May 2016). "Sinead O'Connor says she has 'lost it all - job, family, home' after suicide alert". Mirror. Archived from the original on 30 July 2018 . Retrieved 5 April 2018.

In the early 2000s, O'Connor revealed that she suffered from fibromyalgia. The pain and fatigue she experienced caused her to take a break from music from 2003 to 2005. [172] In 2011, O'Connor worked on recording a new album, titled Home, to be released in the beginning of 2012, [100] titled How About I Be Me (and You Be You)?, [101] [102] with the first single being "The Wolf is Getting Married". She planned an extensive tour in support of the album but suffered a serious breakdown between December 2011 and March 2012, [103] resulting in the tour and all her other musical activities for the rest of 2012 being cancelled. O'Connor resumed touring in 2013 with The Crazy Baldhead Tour. The second single "4th and Vine" was released on 18February 2013. [104] Rememberings is intimate, replete with candid anecdotes and full of hard-won insights. It is a unique and remarkable chronicle by a unique and remarkable artist. Thorpe, Vanessa (24 September 2023). "Unreleased Sinéad O'Connor song to play at finale of church cruelty drama". The Guardian . Retrieved 27 September 2023.

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Specia, Megan (27 July 2023). "The Tiny Irish Village Where Sinéad O'Connor Escaped the World". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 29 July 2023 . Retrieved 1 August 2023. Laurence, Rebecca; Baker, Lindsay (23 December 2021). "The best books of the year 2021". BBC Culture . Retrieved 28 May 2023. But it is an incomplete account, some of it written before 2015, when O’Connor’s hysterectomy spiralled her into crisis, and some after, plus a section annotating her albums to date. All the weed she smoked over the years has blunted her memory, O’Connor says. Her powers of recall are also still recovering after the radical hysterectomy, the mental health crisis it precipitated and the very public breakdown that followed in 2017.

Vivinetto, Gina (20 May 2021). "Sinead O'Connor Talks Infamous 'SNL' Performance and Being Called 'Crazy' ". NBC Philadelphia. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. a b c Harrington, Richard (11 January 1991). "Collins Leads Grammy Hopefuls". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020 . Retrieved 12 July 2010. Harvell, Jess (22 November 2005). "Sinéad O'Connor: Throw Down Your Arms". Pitchfork . Retrieved 27 July 2023. O’Connor’s death came 18 months after the death of her son Shane. Photograph: Linda Brownlee/The Guardian

a b c d Ankeny, Jason. "Sinéad O'Connor – Artist Biography". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 11 June 2021 . Retrieved 11 June 2021. Singh, Anita (11 November 2014). "Band Aid 30: One Direction among celebrity line-up". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015 . Retrieved 15 December 2018. In her 2021 memoir, Rememberings, O'Connor wrote that she was regularly beaten by her mother, who also taught her to steal from the collection plate at Mass and from charity tins. [25] In 1979, at age 13, O'Connor went to live with her father, who had recently returned to Ireland after marrying Viola Margaret Suiter ( néeCook) in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, in 1976. [26]

I knew virtually nothing about Sinéad’s life and music going in, yet Rememberings was pretty much exactly what I expected it to be, based entirely on what the mostly unkindly media has taught me about her over the years: Authentic, rambling, and unusual. Which aren’t necessarily bad things—but coupled with her mix of self-confidence and self-deprecation, the result is an incredibly conversational, somewhat repetitive, and very scattered memoir. She writes about her past life in the present tense, which was a peculiar choice, and poetic passages alternate with ones where she uses words such as “ain’t”, “dunno”, and fourteen instances of the slang word “square” throughout the book, which sounds nothing short of archaic, but endearing in an odd sort of way. To be fair, she does warn that she’s written it as if she were having a conversation with the reader right up front—and that due to her mental health issues, a good chunk of her life won’t be covered, because she can’t (or doesn’t want to?) remember (or share). Owoseje, Toyin (14 January 2022). "Sinead O'Connor hospitalized, days after teenage son's death". CNN. Archived from the original on 1 February 2023. In the book’s foreword, O’Connor says that before she ripped up the picture of the pope, she never had the chance to find herself. “But I think you’ll see in this book a girl who does find herself,” she writes, “not by success in the music industry but by taking the opportunity to sensibly and truly lose her marbles. The thing being that after losing them, one finds them and plays the game better.” While her childhood and rise to fame provide rich material, O’Connor, who is 54, says she can’t remember much of the past 20 years, “because I wasn’t really present until six months ago”. Quando Sinéad O'Connor strappò la foto del Papa in tv"[When Sinéad O'Connor tore up the photo of the Pope on TV]. Il Post (in Italian). 3 October 2022 . Retrieved 27 July 2023. High Park Reformatory, Dublin, Co. Dublin, Ireland". childrenshomes.org.uk . Retrieved 9 August 2023.Rememberings offers O'Connor's very personal version of events, a tale of maternal and institutional abuse that might be a misery memoir, if it weren't related with such eccentric charm and cheery fortitude Daily Telegraph