A photo of Sinead O'Connor.

Slán Abhaile Sinead

There are two Darby’s. One existed before Sinead O’Connor, and one after. The one before was alone, confused, compressed into silence and doubt by a world that denies truth. In 1990, when I first heard Sinead, I was fifteen years old. I didn’t know if I was coming or going. I certainly wasn’t planning on staying. Then I heard her, as so many did, her voice a line cast from