Editor's Choice
This reads like fiction until you understand that it's actually a wonderful tribute to a truly wonderful singer who overcame so much to give so much. Technically, it's therefore ineligible, but I haven't run FFF for ten years without being allowed to bend my own rules in exceptional situations.
If you've never heard Sinéad's famous cover of this Prince song, do not ignore – Editor.
If you've never heard Sinéad's famous cover of this Prince song, do not ignore – Editor.
What could anyone say? She was a force of nature, like a hurricane or wildfire, burning with the flame of injustice.
The Catholic treatment of children and single mothers and cover-up of sexual abuse. Women's reproductive rights, the fight for a united Ireland, the British treatment of peasant farming victims, and the famine never compensated.
All I remember was a near-constant sense of intellectual fatigue. I just wanted to hear her sing.
Thirty years later, I feel ashamed that she exposed what everyone ignored as the views of a heretic are better understood now it’s too late.
The Catholic treatment of children and single mothers and cover-up of sexual abuse. Women's reproductive rights, the fight for a united Ireland, the British treatment of peasant farming victims, and the famine never compensated.
All I remember was a near-constant sense of intellectual fatigue. I just wanted to hear her sing.
Thirty years later, I feel ashamed that she exposed what everyone ignored as the views of a heretic are better understood now it’s too late.
Also – there's a poem from Guy Fletcher which you should read here. But he was Editor's Choice last week!:)
