Sinéad O'Connor

A new wax statue of the singer was unveiled at the National Wax Museum, to mark the anniversary of her death

Jazzy and Dolores O’Riordan of The Cranberries were the only women in the top 100 songs played

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan knows what it’s like to face a backlash. In Sinéad O’Connor, he says, he has also seen music at its purest

It’s summer festival time again. As we retrieve our wellies and thermal sleeping bags, what better moment to rank great Irish highlights of the past?

Annie Clark’s ever-morphing, visionary pop has won her consistent acclaim. She’s now inspiring young artists from The Last Dinner Party to Olivia Rodrigo

Insightful essays excavate the magic of music in Ireland and its creative realm

Queer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitards

Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall

Welsh-born musician and songwriter penned songs including Ship of Fools and Put the Message in the Box

Estate says O’Connor, who died last July aged 56, would have been ‘disgusted, hurt, and insulted’

Singer, who died last July, is among 15 artists who have been nominated this year

The New York-born artist, who is about to give a rare Irish performance, has reinvented vocalisation from the ground up and inside out

Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace

The Northern Irish singer-songwriter goes back to his roots for this intriguing mix of mongrel folk and spoken word

Sinéad O’Connor’s body was found in a flat near Brixton last July, weeks after the Irish singer-songwriter moved to London

Television: Dignified RTÉ profile of singer, featuring contributions from Imelda May, Christy Moore and more, tells story honestly and without pretension

The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known

IT Sunday: Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Dublin riots and RTÉ pay scandal were just some of the stories to hold readers’ attention this year

Death of Sinéad O’Connor, Dublin riots and RTÉ pay scandal were just some of the stories to hold readers’ attention this year

It’s okay to gloat about our artistic accomplishments, fruits of a period of social turmoil

Their record Haunted, sung by MacGowan and O’Connor in 1995, is now a classic

The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singer

Emer McLysaght: Matthew Perry was our friend too. To have such a cultural impact on a whole generation is truly astounding

The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and Percolator

The best music, art, literature and more coming your way between Saturday, October 14th, and Friday, October 20th

For Jonny Pierce, of the cult alternative band The Drums, posing naked in an empty house full of traumatic memories was an act of reclamation

If a woman’s contribution to the history and formation of this island is not big enough to stand alongside men, then perhaps it is not big enough to warrant a place in a museum at all

Have Your Say: The Cabinet has approved plans to examine the establishment of a museum to highlight the achievements of women

Singer gave The Woman In The Wall permission to use song before she died

Crocs on the catwalk at Rocha’s fashion show while Pam Hogg dedicates presentation to Sinéad O’Connor

A tradition of linking historical progress to spiritual growth might not be fashionable, but O'Connor deeply understood its merit

The Throwing Muses singer never liked the major-label music business or being pigeonholed – just like her old friend Sinéad O’Connor

The four-time Oscar nominee from Ireland says she does not take for granted ‘the incredible stock’ she comes from

As the country remembers Sinéad O’Connor. the RTÉ presenter knows how to let the music do the talking

Eulogy for Sister Shuhada Sinéad O’Connor by Shaykh Dr Umar Al-Qadri, Chief Imam Islamic Centre of Ireland

Photo gallery by Irish Times photographers

They came from far and wide, from all backgrounds and communities, to pay tribute to a singular singer as she was laid to rest

President, Taoiseach, Bob Geldof, Bono and the Edge attend singer’s private funeral service

Admirers of late Irish singer throng Bray seafront to pay their final respects as she is laid to rest

Members of the public have been invited to say farewell to singer in Co Wicklow town on Tuesday morning ahead of private burial