Sinéad O’Connor

O’Connor was found unresponsive at a home in southeast London on July 26. She was 56

Devotees of O’Connor’s singing and those touched by her sometimes-troubled life tossed roses and other flowers on the hearse

O’Connor’s protest was prophetic, forecasting the global denomination’s public reckoning that was still to come

O’Connor, who began her musical career singing on the streets of Dublin, was a star from her 1987 debut album ‘The Lion and the Cobra’