Sinead O’Connor's Universal Mother the rolling stones Jeffrey Scholes

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Sinead O’Connor's Universal Mother the rolling stones Jeffrey ScholesWith Universal Mother , Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix. Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 ( Saturday Night Live , Madison Square Garden). The sadistic blowback she faced for publicly outing the child abuse of the Catholic Church and its cover up would have destroyed most.