In the summer of 2000, Shane MacGowan played The Harp, the Irish pub on Causeway Street. By then, fans were well aware of his mounting health problems. Infamous for his binge drinking, the growling ...

NENAGH, Ireland (Reuters) -Shane MacGowan's friends and family sang and danced in the aisles to a rousing rendition of The Pogues' Christmas anthem "Fairytale of New York" at a joyous funeral marking ...

Dirty Old Town' is one of Ireland's all-time favourite songs, but The Pogues classic was originally written by Ewan MacColl about the industrialism of Salford.

Raise a farewell toast for Shane MacGowan, one of rock’s most fiendishly brilliant growlers, snarlers, songwriters, storytellers, and blackguards. Shane was the resident Celt-punk genius of The Pogues ...

UPDATE: MacGowan's wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, revealed to the New York Times that the singer's cause of death was pneumonia. Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, best known for the holiday favorite ...

The London-raised child of Irish parents, Shane MacGowan, who has died aged 65, took the folk music of the old country and imbued it with the snarling energy of punk. Billing himself for a time as ...

The legendary Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died. According to a statement that the Pogues posted on social media, MacGowan "died peacefully at 3AM this morning (30 November, 2023) with his wife ...

This is an obvious choice for many reasons, one being that it’s now December 1 and it’s time for Christmas. But, The Pogues aren’t just for the holidays. While “Fairytale of New York” is considered an ...