Today, the world learned that iconic Irish musician and political activist Sinéad O'Connor passed away at the age of 56, according to a statement released by her family this afternoon.
O'Connor, who legally changed her name to Shuhada Sadaqat but still performed under her birth name, was born in the Glenageary suburb of Dublin in 1965. Her family sent her to a reformatory that'd once been a Magdelene laundry (the term for the abusive homes for "promiscuous" women run by the Catholic Church in Ireland during 18th through 20th centuries), where she suffered from abuse.
