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Post by cato on Jul 27, 2023 9:19:11 GMT
I was shocked and saddened by the death yesterday of Sinead O Connor. Sinead was a controversial turbulent and often deeply unhappy and troubled woman. She also had great musical ability. In a way she mirrored much of contemporary Ireland's virtues and vices.
Her music was often haunting to the core and she had a great love and appreciation of the Irish musical tradition. She often breathed new life into old ballads and made them fresh and enchanting. She brought great happiness, solace and comfort to millions. That's a magnificent legacy. May she be at peace with the musicians and bards of our land who have gone before her.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jul 27, 2023 10:10:27 GMT
I was shocked and saddened by the death yesterday of Sinead O Connor. Sinead was a controversial turbulent and often deeply unhappy and troubled woman. She also had great musical ability. In a way she mirrored much of contemporary Ireland's virtues and vices. Her music was often haunting to the core and she had a great love and appreciation of the Irish musical tradition. She often breathed new life into old ballads and made them fresh and enchanting. She brought great happiness, solace and comfort to millions. That's a magnificent legacy. May she be at peace with the musicians and bards of our land who have gone before her. Amen. This must also be a difficult time for John Waters and the daughter he had with O Connor. She was obviously on a search for God all through her life. I pray she finds Him at the end of her journey. |
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Post by Séamus on Jul 28, 2023 12:30:55 GMT
I was shocked and saddened by the death yesterday of Sinead O Connor. Sinead was a controversial turbulent and often deeply unhappy and troubled woman. She also had great musical ability. In a way she mirrored much of contemporary Ireland's virtues and vices. Her music was often haunting to the core and she had a great love and appreciation of the Irish musical tradition. She often breathed new life into old ballads and made them fresh and enchanting. She brought great happiness, solace and comfort to millions. That's a magnificent legacy. May she be at peace with the musicians and bards of our land who have gone before her. Amen. This must also be a difficult time for John Waters and the daughter he had with O Connor. She was obviously on a search for God all through her life. I pray she finds Him at the end of her journey. The Foggy Dew was impressive, but largely because of The Chieftains' instrumentation also. From the Sean-Nós Nua album, from a conservative viewpoint possibly her greatest credit, I liked Her Mantle So Green,probably quite a neglected Irish ballad, Peggy Gordon and her breathlessly wide-ranged version of Baidin Fheilimi. I'm not sure that un-Irish music commentators quite 'got it' when it came to the expressionism, talking of her 'shout to a subdued whisper' as if it was something she'd invented. Finbarr Furey and others had sean-nós-ed songs from without the usual Irish music realm before this- by reaching the top worldwide she'd brought this to an astronomical audience. As I heard about her death- I'd hardly call it unexpected given her history- I was receiving photos of a Requiem taking place at the time (and the booklet produced for it) from a (Filipino) lady who sings in a choir for a parish run by a Norbertine community, now few in permanent numbers (although I understand it houses members of the order studying from overseas). They were burying a nonagenarian priest,their last 1950s pioneer from now-defunct Kilnacrott; he was born in the Cavan area. I couldn't help balancing the whole timeline: the Abbey which produced the most notorious priest in his country, the angry singer who both loved and hated any symbolism or vestige of Catholicism,although her own mother seemed the face of everything she was angry at more than any priest or religious, the change of attitudes during the 1990s in particular,though not exclusively, then this apparently much loved and respected Premonstratensian who humbly worked actively into his late-80s who came forth from the same Kilnacrott Abbey. I wonder at the future of sean-nós and ballad singing. Discussing how great she was at this, also gives rise to questions about how strongly the traditional music scene will continue- will peoples in even the remotest part of Donegal be wondering why some odd individual is going from shout to whisper? |
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