The tune appears in the finale of the mystery drama series The Woman in the Wall.
“I stripped the song away to just Sinéad’s voice and then let the full power come in for the second half,” Holmes added. “It’s incredible how the meaning of the song came together with this story. It was just meant to be. There’s a certain magic when you bring music to an emotive story.”
The series has personal ties to the late singer. Though Holmes said O’Connor did not detail the meaning of the song to Holmes, she previously shared her own experiences as a teenager within the Magdalene laundries in a 2010 essay for“When I was a young girl, my mother — an abusive, less-than-perfect parent — encouraged me to shoplift,” the singer wrote.
She continued, “An Grianán was one of the now-infamous church-sponsored ‘Magdalene laundries,’ which housed pregnant teenagers and uncooperative young women. We worked in the basement, washing priests’ clothes in sinks with cold water and bars of soap. We studied math and typing. We had limited contact with our families. We earned no wages. One of the nuns, at least, was kind to me and gave me my first guitar.
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