Sinéad O'Connor announces title of first album in 8 years, No Veteran Dies Alone

Sinéad O’Connor has shared more details of her 11th studio album, confirming the title, No Veteran Dies Alone along with its 2022 release date.

The Irish singer-songwriter, who has changed her birth name to Shuhada Sadaqat to mark her conversion to the Islamic faith, originally teased the album back in December 2021.

O'Connor also revealed that its undisclosed cover art was designed by Donegal illustrator Jacob Stack.

Now, the musician has confirmed that the follow-up to 2014’s I’m Not Bossy, I’m The Boss will arrive in January - though with no official date set.

She told Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 yesterday that the album will released next year, while commenting to The New York Times in a recent interview that it will comprise seven songs.

Belfast musician David Holmes, who is producing the project, described Sinéad’s vocal on the album’s title track as “undeniable”.

Last October, the 54-year-old released a cover of Mahalia Jackson’s ‘Trouble Of The World’, with 100 per cent of the song’s digital revenue going to Black Lives Matter charities.

O'Connor's memoir Rememberings was published on June 1st, 2021 by Sandycove - an imprint of Penguin Books.

She writes that some people have been left out of the book "because I know they prefer privacy", but others have been omitted because she wants them to be annoyed "when they look for their names in the book and don't find them".

Her true intention, however, is to "to put all the pieces of the jigsaw that was me out on the floor and see what I could put together", she says. "To be understood was my desire."

The book is in three parts and told in two "very distinctly different voices" - one leading up to the tearing of the Pope's picture and one after. "I see the first voice as a ghost's and the next as a living woman's. Both are equally as important," she tells the reader.

Read the inspiring September 2020 Hot Press interview with Sinéad O'Connor here.