Interview to Sinead O´Connor
The make up. 
By Stéphane Davet for Le Monde and Clarín.
By Stéphane Davet for Le Monde and Clarín.
(...)The launch of her latest record, Sean-Nos Nua (literally, "old new songs" in Gaelic), a collection of Irish traditional songs, could be interpreted as a sign of her reconciliation with that Ireland whose boredom and traumatic memories she had ran away from. In fact, the enfant terrible from the Republic of Ireland never disowned her origins. If the violence of an alcoholic mother symbolized for her the suffering and fear inflicted by the most conservative aspects of that country, the love for her father is forever linked to that for the songs. "My father used to sing all day long", recalls Sinéad. "My father's whispers allowed me to embrace these traditional songs". "Like many Irish people who emigrated, I suffered loneliness -she explains. I had some records sent and became very interested in the true meaning of these songs. I understood that in many of them it had been corrupted by the education system and the parishioners". (...) According to her, "traditional songs are all that's left from our history. They allow us to find a truth that was stolen from us by the Church, with the English's complicity. As these songs have been made prisoners of certain singers' interpretations and needed to be freed" (...)
 
March 15, 2003.
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