<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Sinead O'Connor's funeral took place in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland on Tuesday.Getty/Mostafa Darwish</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Sinéad O'Connor's funeral took place in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland, on Tuesday.</li><li>The Irish singer died in late July. She was 56.</li></ul><p><a href="https://www.insider.com/sinead-oconnor-wrote-about-grief-son-shane-suicide-before-death-2023-7">Sinéad O'Connor's</a> funeral took place in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland on Tuesday.</p><p>The singer, best known for her 1990 rendition of "Nothing Compares 2 U," originally by Prince, <a href="https://www.insider.com/sinead-oconnor-dead-irish-singer-nothing-compares-2-u-2023-7" rel>died on July 26 at 56</a>.</p><p>After a private ceremony, thousands lined the streets of Bray, the coastal town O'Connor called her home for over a decade, to pay their final respects as her cortege passed through en route to her burial.</p><p>Ireland's president, Michael D. Higgins, attended the private ceremony and <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/sin-ad-o-connor-president-103920591.html">said:</a> "The outpouring of grief and appreciation of the life and work of Sinéad O'Connor demonstrates the profound impact which she had on the Irish people."</p>