Sinéad O’Connor: a life in pictures
The Irish singer, songwriter and activist has died aged 56
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O’Connor on stage at the Olympic Ballroom, Dublin, Ireland, 4 March 1988
Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty Images
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A still from Nothing Compares, Kathryn Ferguson’s 2022 documentary about O’Connor’s life and legacy
Photograph: Field of Vision/Album/Alamy
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O’Connor in performance on 13 December 1987
Photograph: Sipa/Shutterstock
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O’Connor in Wuthering Heights, 1992
Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
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O’Connor sings at the gathering for the 20th anniversary of the March on the British Embassy on 19 August 1989
Photograph: Independent News and Media/Getty Images
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O’Connor in her communion dress
Photograph: Courtesy Sinéad O'Connor
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O’Connor with Chrissie Hynde in central London for the UK launch of the Fourth United Nations Global Conference on Women on 22 August 1995
Photograph: PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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O’Connor with a black eye after a scuffle with a nightclub bouncer at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton, December 1987
Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/Shutterstock
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O’Connor at Lourdes in France where she was ordained as a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church and adopted the name Mother Bernadette Mary O’Connor
Photograph: Michael Crabtree/PA
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O’Connor in 1993
Photograph: Jane Bown/The Observer
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Artwork featuring O’Connor at the The Icon Walk in Dublin
Photograph: Niall Carson/PA
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O’Connor performs at Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 March 1988
Photograph: Paul Bergen/Redferns
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Susan McHugh (left), whose initiative in reaction to the Warrington bombing prompted plans for the Dublin peace pally, opens her arms to O’Connor after she sang on 28 March 1993
Photograph: Martin McCullough/PA Images/Alamy Stock Photo
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O’Connor on stage in 1997
Photograph: Mary F. Calvert/MediaNews Group/Bay Area News/Getty
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O’Connor at home in 2010
Photograph: Martin Godwin
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O’Connor (C) performs during the Guinness Fleadh at San Jose State University on 28 June 1998
Photograph: Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Images
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O’Connor in 1999
Photograph: Geoff Wilkinson/Shutterstock
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O’Connor hugs her daughter Roisin during an anti-racism demonstration in Dublin city centre, 13 May 2000
Photograph: Reuters
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A video of O’Connor plays over the crowd awaiting the arrival of US president Obama at College Green in Dublin, 23 May 2011
Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
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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
Photograph: Kieran Frost/Redferns
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O’Connor in 1997
Photograph: Tony Kyriacou/Shutterstock
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O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on the TV show Saturday Night Live, 3 October 1992
Photograph: Yvonne Hemsey/Getty Images
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O’Connor modelling for John Rocha in 1994 [• This caption was amended on 28 July 2023 to correct the spelling of John Rocha]
Photograph: Steve Wood/Shutterstock
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O’Connor photographed for Weekend magazine, May 2021
Photograph: Linda Brownlee/The Guardian
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O’Connor hangs out with her son before going on stage at the Electric Picnic Festival 2011 - Day One Dublin
Photograph: WENN Rights Ltd/Alamy
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O’Connor on stage in 1992
Photograph: Crispin Rodwell/Shutterstock
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O’Connor with Shabba Ranks and Jazzie B of Soul II Soul in 1991
Photograph: Richard Young/Shutterstock
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O’Connor on ITV’s South Bank Show
Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock
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O’Connor on the acoustic stage at Glastonbury
Photograph: Bruce Adams/ANL/Shutterstock
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O’Connor on the Italian TV show Che Tempo Che Fa, 5 October 2014
Photograph: Agf/Shutterstock
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O’Connor performs on stage at the Vogue Theatre, Vancouver, Canada on 1 February 2020
Photograph: Andrew Chin/Getty Images
