Pogues singer Shane MacGowan left €5.6m estate – The Irish Times
Pogues singer Shane MacGowan left an estate of £4.8 million (€5.6 million) in England and Wales following his…
Maurice MacGowan had ‘a beautiful and noble soul’, funeral told – The Irish Times
Maurice MacGowan, the father of the late singer and frontman of The Pogues Shane MacGowan, had “a beautiful…
Maurice MacGowan, father of Shane MacGowan, dies following short illness – The Irish Times
Maurice MacGowan, the father of the late musician Shane MacGowan, has died. He was in his mid-90s. He…
Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard – The Irish Times
September 1990. A roar echoes down the Dublin dockland quays, still a jumble of dilapidated Victorian sheds and…
‘Shane MacGowan had wine in one hand and vodka in the other’: Alan Stivell’s Celtic revival – The Irish Times
Alan Stivell is thinking back to the time he taught Shane MacGowan to sing in Breton, the Celtic…
What do you make of Johnny Depp and Imelda May’s new Shane MacGowan tribute track?
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‘How did I stay so young? Twenty years of drug addiction and a good face cream’ – The Irish Times
I can’t see Nick Cave. The Australian singer is talking from his home in London, favouring the telephone…
Bruce Springsteen, Hozier, Jessie Buckley and Kate Moss among stars on Shane MacGowan tribute album – The Journal
Bruce Springsteen, Hozier, Jessie Buckley and Kate Moss among stars on Shane MacGowan tribute album The JournalHozier joins Jessie…
The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken dies aged 72 – The Irish Times
The Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken has died aged 72. In a statement shared on social media, the band…
Bono joins annual Christmas Eve busking session in Dublin city centre – The Irish Times
Bono, Imelda May and Oscar winner Glen Hansard have taken part in a Christmas Eve charity busking session…
Victoria Mary Clarke on loneliness: ‘I realised that I really don’t want to spend the rest of my life just killing time until it’s over’
The author and artist talks about the excruciating silence she faced when her husband died and the different…
Kirsty MacColl’s son opens up about Fairytale of New York singer’s tragic speedboat death 25 years on
Louis Lillywhite has spoken about his mother Kirsty MacColl’s tragic death in a speedboat accident in Mexico on…