"Only yesterday did I discover that her group, or she herself, had composed the song in memory of the event in Warrington. My wife came home from the police centre where she worked yesterday and told me the news. I got the song up on the laptop, watched the band singing, saw Dolores and listened to the words. The words are both majestic and also very real … The event at Warrington, like the many events that happened all over Ireland and Great Britain, affected families in a very real way and many people have become immune to the pain and suffering that so many people experienced during that armed campaign. To read the words written by an Irish band in such compelling way was very, very powerful."
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Colin Parry, father of a 12 year old child killed in the Warrington bomb attack of 20 March 1993, after learning that her song "Zombie" had been inspired by that event, as quoted in "Dolores O'Riordan thanked by father of IRA bomb victim for 'majestic' lyrics" by Clarisse Loughrey, in The Independent (16 January 2018)
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Dolores O'Riordan
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan [/oʊˈrɪərdən/] (6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018) was an Irish musician, singer and songwriter. She was best known as the lead vocalist and lyricist for the alternative rock band the Cranberries. She briefly pursued a solo career, from 2003 until their reunion in 2009, but the group disbanded in 2019 after her death in 2018. O'Riordan had one of the most recognisable voices in rock in the 1990s. She was known for her lilting mezzo-soprano voice, signature yodel, e
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