Sinéad O'Connor nominated for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2024

Sinéad O'Connor has been nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for its Class of 2024.

The announcement, posted on the foundation's website, said Sinéad had "left an indelible mark on the soul of popular music."

This is the late singer's first time being nominated for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, one of the music industry's most iconic accolades.

Other nominees for 2024 include A Tribe Called Quest, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Eric B. & Rakim, Foreigner, Jane’s Addiction, Kool & the Gang, Lenny Kravitz, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige, Oasis, Ozzy Osbourne, Peter Frampton, and Sade.

“This remarkable list of nominees reflects the diverse artists and music that the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame honours and celebrates,” John Sykes, chairman of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation said.

"With a distinctive multifaceted voice and a striking presence that challenged traditional views of femininity, O’Connor was ahead of her time expressing her unrepentant rage and sorrow over then-taboo subjects like women’s rights, organised religion, child abuse, and oppression," the foundation's description of Sinéad reads.

However some have criticised the nomination as "too little, too late."

Pat Carty, a long-time Irish music journalist with Hot Press, said that Sinéad had been "vilified in America" following her controversial Saturday Night Live appearance in 1992.

"When the incident happened with her ripping up the picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live, her career dropped off – they didn’t pay attention to her after," Pat said, speaking on the Moncrieff show on Newstalk.

“If she was still around, I suspect she would have said thanks, but no thanks – maybe even a bit more colourful than that.”

Nominee ballots for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame will be sent to an international voting body of more than 1,000 artists, historians, and members of the music industry.

Inductees will be announced in late April, with the Induction Ceremony taking place in Cleveland, Ohio this autumn.

The fan ballot is open now here.

If successfully inducted, Sinead will be the first-ever female Irish artist, and the third Irish artist to be inducted after U2 and Van Morrison.