A Song About “Man’s Inhumanity”
“This song’s our cry against man’s inhumanity to man; and man’s inhumanity to child.” – Dolores O’Riordan.
What for many of us was a song to sing along to in the car or at a school dance, was a song of protest for The Cranberries. The 1994 hit single Zombie was no simple track. It was inspired by some real sh**.
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Dolores wrote the song in 1993 while the band was touring in England. She wrote it in memory of two young boys named Tim Parry and Johnathan Ball, who were killed in an IRA bombing in Warrington, England.