Joyce Fegan: It's taken 30 years to revise Sinéad O'Connor

The industry was a long time learning they had gotten into bed with an activist and artist, not someone seeking fame and fortune

Sinéad O'Connor: When a record company wanted her to fit into the narrow confines of femininity — short skirts, long flowing hair — she went and shaved her head. They weren't best pleased.

Singer Sinéad O'Connor has died at the age of 56. This feature was first published on September 29, 2022.

To watch a 26-year-old Sinéad O’Connor silently face off against a booing crowd in New York’s Madison Square Garden for several excruciatingly long minutes, and not acquiesce to the public shaming by thousands, is to perhaps intimately know her story for the time ever.