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My friend Jessica Murray emailed me this yesterday and I asked her if I could repost here:

"Like all genuine icons, O’Connor was able to inspire each of us to identify with different aspects of her; in your case, maybe especially the Catholic part & the suicide part. But every one of us identified with the Uranus part.

I’ll warrant even those of her admirers who didn’t have Sadge in them responded to that rarity among celebs, the courage-of-convictions.

And the Irish aspect. As you say, she personified that tragic land.

The historical event that rips my heart out more than any other is The Easter Rebellion. Have you ever heard her acapella ode to it?

RIP Daughter of Fire, (and for all the martyrs and freedom fighters everywhere.)"

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