Susan McKay: Sinead O’Connor danced on the edge of the dark all her life

Ireland a theocracy. She was furious that in a country that had supposedly fought for and won its freedom, women and children were so silenced and disempowered. She understood and had experienced pain, neglect and injustice and sang for those who also knew these things.

“Black Boys on Mopeds,” her poignant ballad about hypocrisy, police violence and racism, will always remind me of Belfast, Northern Ireland, in that era when I worked in a rape crisis center and it seemed Margaret Thatcher would be the British prime minister forever. On July 27 she was on the front pages of all the Irish newspapers. I have been surprised by how stricken I am. Others have said the same. “Devastated” is the word most used.

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