A previously unreleased Sinéad O’Connor song has been released nearly two months after her death.
Entitled The Magdalene Song, the piece was performed during the final episode of the British series The Woman in the Wall, broadcast last Sunday on the BBC.
According to her producer, David Holmes, the Irish singer-songwriter, who died on July 26 at the age of 56, had given her consent for the song to be used in this series before the start of filming, reports the British daily The Guardian.
The Woman in the Wall shows the impact of the “Magdalene Laundries”, institutions run by the Catholic Church in Ireland denounced for mistreating thousands of girls and young women who stayed there until ‘in the mid-1990s.
In the 1980s, when she was a teenager, the Nothing Compares 2 U singer lived there herself after being labeled a “problem child”.
“In the lyrics [of The Magdalene Song], Sinéad O’Connor was trying to say, I think, that even though she had gone through a lot of turmoil, it wouldn’t stop her from being who she wanted to be,” indicated David Holmes, in an interview with The Guardian.
