Kathryn Ferguson

We went over to Ireland and met lots of academics and writers and journalists and just kept testing, is this right?

Is our view on this correct?

And it was just brilliant because everyone we met was just like, absolutely, it's right.

And it's unbelievable that it hasn't been told or shown and this hasn't existed before now.

And what was really interesting, actually speaking to historians in Dublin, they were saying back in 2018, for the first time ever, she was being written into the history books.

And it wasn't just as, oh, here's a fabulous musician who's done very well.

She was being written in as a really important cultural Irish figure for what she'd done.

But that was new and that was 2018.

So it had taken that many decades for even her own to be including her in the way that she's now being seen.

Absolutely.

And I think what you said at the start there was really on point that, you know, of course, music was her vessel and that's how she communicated.

But Sinead was an artist in every sense.

She lived and breathed her art.

And it came before anything else.

It came before commercial success.

It came before fame.

Everything that she did was trying to communicate through her work and trying to communicate messages, political messages.

Her point of view, she really wanted to connect with people and communicate to them.

And it was through this incredible voice that she was able to.

But I'm nearly certain if she hadn't have sang, she would have been a writer or, as you said, a painter.