The death has occurred of the father of the late singer songwriter Shane MacGowan following a short illness. He was 96.<\/p>\n
Maurice MacGowan died on Monday at University Hospital Limerick, surrounded by his family.<\/p>\n
He was originally from Ranelagh in Dublin, but also lived in Silvermines and Nenagh in Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n
Mr MacGowan was predeceased by his wife Therese and son Shane, who was frontman of the Pogues and who died in November 2023 at the age of 65.<\/p>\n
He is survived by his daughter Siobhan, son-in-law Anthony, and daughter-in-law Victoria Mary Clarke.<\/p>\n
Siobhan MacGowan highlighted that Maurice was a hugely positive influence on Shane’s literary development, adding that Shane “also inherited a lot of Maurice’s personality”. <\/p>\n
‘Enormous influence’<\/p>\n
“Shane’s dad was such an enormous influence on his work and I don\u2019t think people realise that,” she said. <\/p>\n
“He was the one getting him reading Joyce and Flann O Brien and Behan and everyone when he was a little kid instead of children\u2019s books, and Shane always credited him with his love for great literature and his appreciation for poetry. <\/p>\n
“His ability to be authentic and unfiltered and really funny in a dry and sharp way was Maurice and his inherent self-belief and lack of a need to impress anyone.” <\/p>\n
“Shane would have long conversations with his father and he would ask Maurice what he was listening to and it was always something really interesting,” she said.<\/p>\n
“He had an incredibly eclectic taste, and he was right up to date with everything that was happening in the music world.<\/p>\n
“And of course he was a composer and a poet himself. He passed on his genes!” <\/p>\n
A funeral service for him will be held at the Shannon Crematorium on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Mourners are invited to make donations, if desired, to St Vincent De Paul in lieu of flowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The death has occurred of the father of the late singer songwriter Shane MacGowan following a short illness.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-584838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}