Σχετικά με την διαταραγμένη και βαθύτατα κακοποιητική μητέρα της Sinead, γράφει και ο μεγαλύτερος αδερφός της, Joseph συγγραφέας και δημοσιογράφος:"(...)My parents had an unhappy marriage and separated in 1975. That was very painful for both of them, and for their four children. They had many fine qualities and loved us all very much, They loved each other, too, but they didn't have too much luck. My mother was a deeply unhappy and disturbed person and her relationship with Sinead and the rest of us disintegrated in time into extreme and violent abuse, both emotional and physical.My father protected us at every single stage, suffering greatly in the process. staying to lake care of us when plenty of parents would have thrown in the towel, spat out the gumshield and run like blue blazes for the dressing roomWhen things became finally unbearable, he fought hard to win custody of us and he succeeded. He did not want to leave us behind in a situation that might have been dangerous for us and, indeed, he did not do this. We were never abandoned by him. For anyone to suggest that we were, or to lump him together with my unfortunate mother, or to equate both of my parents' treatment of us, would be a very serious mistake indeed.Sinead came to live with my father and stepmother. There were times when she got on with them and times when she did not. Sinead had problems in school and used to get into trouble sometimes, as did other children in the family, and as children often do when they've been given a dysfunctional sense of morality.My mother wasn't good on morality, I'm afraid, and we in the family have to learn to extend to her the mercy and forgiveness that any unhappy person deserves (...)"http://www.members.tripod.com/dcebe/poem02.txt+"On a Sunday morning four months ago, my mother was killed in a car crash, in Dublin, my childhood home. Her departure, so sudden, so shocking and violent, means all kinds of resolutions can never happen. A charismatic, mercurial woman, she had many gifts, but the ability to be a good mother wasn't one of them. Our family hasn't been happy; my parents' marriage ended in the courts. Her death leaves unanswered questions."από την guardian, πάλι ο Joseph.και "(Sinead) In another interview with Time magazine a few months after ripping up the pope’s picture (*), she opened up about her own history of abuse:“Sexual and physical. Psychological. Spiritual. Emotional. Verbal.I went to school every day covered in bruises, boils, sties and face welts, you name it. Nobody ever said a bloody word or did a thing.Naturally, I was very angered by the whole thing, and I had to find out why it happened... The thing that helped me most was the 12-step group, the Adult Children of Alcoholics/Dysfunctional Families. My mother was a valium addict. What happened to me is a direct result of what happened to my mother and what happened to her in her house and in school."Δεν ξέρω τι έκανε στα (αγόρια) αδέρφια η προβληματική μητέρα τους, αλλά η Sinead περιγράφει κάποιες μορφές κακοποίησης, που εφόσον είναι αληθείς, στόχευαν -ακριβώς- την γυναικεία ύπαρξη της, or so it seems, παρ' ολ' αυτά:"Sinead had re-established contact with her mother, and the two had been getting on quite well.Then, however, Sinead challenged her mother about the abuse she had doled out to her and her mother denied everything.This caused Sinead to cut off ties with her mother and her family. Her mother subsequently died in a car crash before the two had reconciled."η μαμά, όπως επισημάνθηκε και σε άλλο link, δεν ήταν το μόνο "πρόβλημα":"“It’s dangerous to be pretty, too, because I kept getting raped and molested everywhere I went,” the Irish singer continues. “I didn’t want to be raped. I didn’t want to be molested. I did not want to dress like a girl. I did not want to be pretty.”"____________Σχετικά με την εμπειρία της σε "άσυλο της μαγδαληνής", μπορεί να την έβαζαν -ως τιμωρία- να κοιμάται με ετοιμοθάνατες γυναίκες, αλλά δεν ήταν και όλα αρνητικά:She has previously described the experience as being full of “panic, terror and agony” but she also believes it saved her from an inevitable downward spiral towards jail. “The nun that ran the place got me my first guitar, and a guitar teacher. I always say, if you live with the Devil, you find out there’s a god”.και το ποιόν των εν λόγω establishments είναι, πλέον, γνωστό: "Σαν σήμερα το 1996 κλείνει το τελευταίο γυναικείο άσυλο της Ιρλανδίας, γνωστό ως Πλυντήριο της Μαγδαληνής Θεωρείται πια κολαστήριο και 'ντροπή του έθνους'" https://www.lifo.gr/team/sansimera/51635____________bonusη σκισμένη φωτό του πάπα (*):"O'Connor was appearing as the musical guest on the US comedy show Saturday Night Live on 3 October 1992, performing an a cappella version of Bob Marley's War. She had changed the lyrics to draw attention to child abuse within the Roman Catholic church, and at the song's end ripped a photo of Pope John Paul II in half. The show's producers had no idea what she was planning – in rehearsals she had held up a picture of a refugee child.Nor, it transpires, was it just a random photo of the pope that O'Connor tore up. "The photo itself had been on my mother's bedroom wall since the day the fucker was enthroned in 1978," she told Hot Press."https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/21/sinead-o-connor-pope-photo
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