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, or the great hunger. As Sinéad explains:

Okay, I want to talk about Ireland

Specifically, I want to talk about the famine

About the fact that there never really was one 10

While there was a blight in the 1840s that decimated the potato crop, there was no famine. There was plenty of food in Ireland, just not for the Irish people. Absentee British landlords sold food for export and even controlled fishing from "their" streams. The high

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