Fans could have the chance to say goodbye to beloved Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor in a public tribute near her former Ireland home on Tuesday, August 8.
The funeral plans for the icon, who was found dead at her home in London on July 26 on the age of 56, were announced in an announcement on behalf of her family on Sunday.
Per the Irish Times, they’ve invited mourners to pay their final respects during a funeral cortege that can pass her home of 15 years in Bray, on the Eastern Irish coast just south of Dublin.
Starting at 10:30 a.m., the processional will happen along Bray’s seafront Strand Road, and culminate at the opposite end of the one-kilometer strip before turning for a personal burial with the family.
“Sinéad loved living in Bray and the people in it. With this procession, her family would love to acknowledge the outpouring of affection for her from the people of Co[unty] Wicklow and beyond, since she left last week, to go to a different place,” the message concluded.
The Post reached out to O’Connor’s representatives for comment.
O’Connor, who was born on Dec. 8, 1966, in Dublin, Ireland, was a hitmaker whose sudden death on July 26 shocked the world.
Last week, John Thompson, the clerk of the London Inner South district for Southwark Coroners Court, confirmed to the Irish Times on Thursday that an autopsy of O’Connor was accomplished before her stays were released to her family.
The report is probably not ready for a number of weeks, the outlet reported, and details will only be disclosed to the general public only “if an inquest is opened into her death.”
London police said that O’Connor was pronounced dead on the scene after they were called at 11:18 a.m., to “reports of an unresponsive woman at a residential address within the SE24 area.”
Currently, her death just isn’t being treated as suspicious.
In 1987, on the age of 20, O’Connor made her way onto the music scene together with her debut album, “The Lion and the Cobra,” and went on to release 10 studio albums during her record-setting profession.
Three years after her debut, she became a household name with a rendition of “Nothing Compares 2 U” — an influence ballad written by Prince.
In 1991, she scored a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Performance for her album “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got.”
Nevertheless, her profession was not without some controversy, as she was banned from NBC for all times after she ripped up a photograph of Pope John Paul II during a 1992 guest appearance on “Saturday Night Live.”
In 2018, she decided to convert to Islam and adjusted her name to Shuhada’ Sadaqat.
Her passing got here just 18 months after the January 2022 death of her 17-year-old son, Shane, by suicide — something that she had expressed she had a difficult time with, as one in every of her last Tweets was a tribute to the late child wherein she detailed that she had “been living as [an] undead night creature since” his death.
The singer is survived by her three children, Jake Reynolds, 36, Roisin Waters, 27, and Yeshua Bonadio, 16.
