Shane MacGowan mural in Co Tipperary nears completion
Artwork in Nenagh featuring the late Pogues singer is expected to be finished at the end of this week
Stories about the Irish singer, songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan - 1957-2023
Artwork in Nenagh featuring the late Pogues singer is expected to be finished at the end of this week
Ahead of the 18th Bad Seeds studio album, Cave shares expansive thoughts on grief, the ‘angel’ Shane MacGowan and the beauty of the world
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At Montrose he worked on The Live Mike and guided The Late Late Show through its difficult transition out of the Gay Byrne era
Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall
Jack Antonoff is a top-flight producer of the likes of Lorde, Lana Del Rey and St Vincent. He’s also very keen to talk about the recently departed Pogues singer
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The Irish in England loved him. And many English in England loved him also
Both ‘lived on capital, not interest’, says the former Communard and recently retired vicar, who is bringing his Borderline National Trinket ‘stand-up memoir’ to Ireland
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Even as very young children growing up in Tunbridge Wells, we were sure of our roots. Identity is not a postcode, and Shane understood this more than most
From the inside story behind Shane MacGowan’s masterpiece Fairytale of New York to Christmas cooking with Mark Moriarty and Rory O’Connell
Deadlines, from filing copy to car park closures, leave this journalist late to the party
‘It’s nearly Christmas and we’re 20 nautical miles off the east coast of Australia.’ Kate Ashe Leonard hopes to make it to Sydney in time
Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy
As Pogues singer's cortege passed Westland Row only the slow beat of a drum and the lament of an uilleann piper could be heard before the applause began
Funeral featuring some of The Pogues’ greatest hits concludes with The Parting Glass as thousands line streets for singer who died aged 65
Procession to be led by Artane Band and lone piper as horse-drawn carriage bears coffin ahead of Co Tipperary burial
Pogues frontman gave lyrical meaning to the tension of an Ireland that demands a complex present while yearning for a simple past
Radio review: Fault lines trump fairy tales as Newstalk Breakfast duo do their own thing
A transatlantic ballad on the life and death of a man called Big Jim Dwyer
The Pogues’ festive classic was pipped to the UK top spot in 1987 by Pet Shop Boys, but is now in battle for pole position with Wham! and Mariah Carey
London Irish gather to pay tribute to late Pogues frontman who gave voice to their identity
MacGowan told the stories of people on the edges of society. He never shirked from their degradation, pain and humanity while also elevating their lives into something rich, beautiful and mythic
Untethered nationalism is heady and exciting right up to the point where it gets out of hand – sports fans know this better than anyone
Pogues singer had a deep connection with Tipperary, and some of its pubs, where he said he felt at home
From the archive: In this Irish Times article from 1985, the late singer talks about the ‘Irish ghetto’, the BBC’s Pogues ban, and ‘despair, dullness and sobriety’
Despite the many medical challenges of his final years, he retained an admirably cussed streak to the end
From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985
The Pogues in the early 1980s felt to thousands of second-generation Irish like the answer to an unspoken prayer
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