This morning/afternoon.

Sinead O’Connor’s memoir ‘Rememberings’ will come out on June 1, 2021.

Via AP:

[Publishers] Houghton Mifflin is calling the book a “revelatory” account of O’Connor’s life, from her childhood in Dublin through such triumphs as her cover of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U,” and through her many controversies and her struggles with mental illness. Last month, she announced she was entering a year-long treatment program for trauma and addiction.

“This is my story, as I remember it. I had great fun writing it over the past few years,” O’Connor said in a statement.

Nothing compares: Sinead O’Connor memoir coming out in June (AP)

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36 thoughts on “Looking Back”

    1. johnnythree

      I would walk over fire for her. As a male sexual abuse survivor I had NO voice and nobody ever talked about trauma in Ireland. Sinead flung the doors open at great personal cost. There will be a litany of comments below – ‘She’s nuts’
      – ‘She’s attention seeking’
      – ‘She changes religion’
      Yeah so what? She told the truth when nobody else did.
      And she’s allowed be who she is. Demean and disparage. Makes no difference to her.

      2. Daisy Chainsaw

        Lambasted for tearing up “St” JP 2’s picture on SNL, but it turned out she was right.

        She’s a phenomenal performer live and I wish her well.

        1. johnnythree

          Hello @Andrew
          I really have to reply to your comment. As a survivor of sexual abuse one of the most disempowering and traumatising things anyone could say to you is that they don’t believe you.
          You see thats what your abuser has done – got inside your head to say you are not going to be believed. So people like you re-abuse people like me or Sinead or whoever by saying they don’t believe what happened. Do you think the Magdalene Laundries didn’t happen? Tuam babies? The Holocaust?

          You see I have a family member like you too Andrew. Just like you. My story does not fit with their narrative. So they too don’t believe me, despite the facts.

          You should really read up, educate yourself on triangulation, PTSD following trauma and how it makes you change, changes your brain….because of the horror of what you have seen. Maybe read up on family dynamics and the role people just like you willingly play to re- narrate family dynamics to scapegoat the abused person. Of course her family members dispute her version of events. Go read about the roles in a family and why members deny abuse. Her father was the first man in Ireland in the 1970’s to be awarded custody of his children. Go let that sink in. The 1970’s..
          I’d love you to have to experience blind panic because of how someone smells when you get into the lift in a shopping centre, or panic in a supermarket because you thought you saw your abuser. I’d love you to have to deal with the constant buzzing in your head because of trauma. I’d love you to have to deal with the fear that you are going to be hospitalised.
          So, yeah, Sinead, mad bitch, contrarian, more tattoos, more kids with more people, changing religions blah blah. She is doing her best. She gets up and tries to be well. Its not an easy life so maybe don’t use your ignorance to make it worse. Best to say nothing if you know nothing. Have a super day.

          1. Andrew

            Or johnnythree you could make less assumptions about people. You know nothing about me or what I do or don’t know. What I’ve been through here and abroad,I’m lucky to be alive. So spare me your condescension and go bore someone else. I referenced what I posted with a first hand account from Joe O’Connor, her brother. You have referenced nothing but your own experience. We all have experiences johnny. It’s not just about you.
            Sanctimony is not a nice trait.

  2. Charger Salmons

    What is it this time ? Change of religion, more body piercings and tatts, attempting to become a Rabbi, another mystery disappearance ?
    Is there anything left we don’t already know about this Pound Shop Madonna ?
    Give it a rest with the publicity seeking and stick to the music will you ?
    You’re no good at all the other rubbish.

      1. Charger Salmons

        She certainly is.
        High maintenance entertainers are only worth the hassle if they continue to do this business.
        Trouble is these days when she trends the immediate reaction is a roll-eyes and a what now ?

        1. millie bobby brownie

          From you, maybe.

          Trumpeting your opinions as fact only makes you look silly. But then you’re hardly the only one round these parts doing that, and only arguably the silliest.

        3. Papi

          How ironic for charger to do nothing but troll all day and then mock someone for attention seeking.
          Pathetic.

    2. v AKA Frilly Keane

      What ever Sinead is
      whenever and wherever
      or however
      the girl will always have more substance inside her bellybutton
      than every post you’ve every plugged in here
      heh *3 mickey

        1. V AKA Frilly Keane

          And here’s another oul’ reliable Charage
          You go an’ tootle yourself

          I’ll do all the signalling I damn well please
          in any colour I like
          And from whatever angle that takes my fancy
          No matter what humour I’m in

          I don’t hide
          Or run away

    3. broadbag

      It’s soooo achingly cool to make fun of people with mental health issues, well done Charger Salmons, bravo big man!

      1. Charger Salmons

        It is possible to understand mental health problems and criticise talented artists who squander their good fortune at the same time.
        Trust me, and I know this from people who have worked with her, she is a high maintenance space cadet whose sublime voice earns her more forgiveness than she perhaps deserves.
        Brad Pitt doesn’t go in for that baloney.

        2. Brother Barnabas

          I worked with her on several occasions

          “high maintenance space cadet” – absolutely not. one of the most unassuming, down to earth, genuine people I’ve ever come across

          she did, though, refuse my half-in-jest marriage proposal

        4. johnnythree

          Yeah @charger salmons cos she just woke up one day and said ‘I think I’ll squander my talent’
          Nothing to do with the abuse she suffered or the mental illness she suffers.

          If you understood mental illness you wold know there is never any reason to criticise peoples behaviour because of it.

        5. Toby

          Ah Charger, you are slowly finding new levels to sink to. For someone who embraces much more disgusting crimes, Im sure you don’t see what the fuss is about. But abuse causes trauma too mate and you laughing at it only rubs salt in the wounds.

      2. johnnythree

        Yes @broadbag It seems like the thing to do.Its sad to see. How would she be expected to be any different? Given the trauma, the public growing up, maybe she is bipolar or has a personality disorder. Nobody knows except her. Her stuff and its up to us not to ridicule her. She has a good heart.

  3. Marbe

    And there I was thinking that we were going to be kinder, more understanding, maybe a little more tolerant of and to those with mental health issues. Can’t we just admire and enjoy the voice and leave the rest be?

    1. johnnythree

      @Marbe – Yup. You will find we are the best nation to fund-raise and talk about ‘talking about mental health’ but when it comes to integrating that with our day to day lives we’re pretty poor.

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