Sinéad O’Connor dismantles the myth of the Irish “famine”

The late Shuhada’ Sadaqat, née Sinéad O’Connor, did not shy away from speaking the truth, to the detriment of her career, but without regret. She called out the abuse in the Catholic church long before anyone was ready to hear about it. In her song “Famine,” she breaks down the myth of the Irish Potato Famine.

In Irish, the famine is called an Gorta Mór,…