{"id":341622,"date":"2026-02-17T10:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/341622\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:18:11","slug":"philip-king-sinead-oconnor-disappears-into-the-music-its-humbling-to-hear-her-sing-a-song-you-wrote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/341622\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip King: \u2018Sin\u00e9ad O\u2019Connor disappears into the music. It\u2019s humbling to hear her sing a song you wrote\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The sense of grief in \u2018I Am Stretched on Your Grave\u2019 is overwhelming, says the Scullion singer\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Having Sin\u00e9ad O'Connor sing one of your songs was a privilege. Photo: Michel Linssen\/Redferns)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fc5888de-cb09-4f84-9c72-feeb70265c27.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Having Sin\u00e9ad O&#8217;Connor sing one of your songs was a privilege. Photo: Michel Linssen\/Redferns)<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The wind is howling around the slopes of Sliabh an Iolair in the west Kerry Gaeltacht, as Philip King reflects on probably his most famous and enduring song, I Am Stretched on Your Grave \u2013 a lament he wrote in 1979 for his band Scullion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The song was inspired by an old Irish poem about a man who cannot bear life without his one true love and lies bereft on her grave from morning to night, hoping she will return to him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sense of grief in \u2018I Am Stretched on Your Grave\u2019 is overwhelming, says the Scullion singer Having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[4747,18,117,19,17,337,23942,944],"class_list":["post-341622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-barry-egan","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-people-culture-magazine","tag-sinead-oconnor"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116085464056451586","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}