Larry Masterson obituary: RTÉ producer and social justice campaigner
At Montrose he worked on The Live Mike and guided The Late Late Show through its difficult transition out of the Gay Byrne era
Shane MacGowan
Stories about the Irish singer, songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan - 1957-2023
Sinéad O’Connor’s daughter sings Nothing Compares 2 U at New York tribute
Róisín Waters was joined by several artists honouring O’Connor and Shane MacGowan at Carnegie Hall
Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff: ‘I thought Shane MacGowan would last forever... He’s the ultimate artist’
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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What’s wrong with University Hospital Limerick?
The midwest hospital, serving a population of about 400,000, is considered one of the worst blackspots in the Irish health service. That’s despite large increases in spending and staffing
Art by Guggi, Dorothy Cross and Shane MacGowan features in sale in aid of Gaza
Proceeds of auction will go to Médecins Sans Frontières
The Belfast film-maker who was Shane MacGowan’s cleaner in London
The Irish in England loved him. And many English in England loved him also
Richard Coles: ‘Do you know who Shane MacGowan reminded me of? Maria Callas’
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
Obituaries of 2023: 50 people who died this year
The Irish Times’s obituary writers have marked the deaths of more than 150 people this year. Here are 50 of the best known
Siobhan MacGowan: My mind is full still with the magical mayhem of my brother Shane’s life
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
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From the inside story behind Shane MacGowan’s masterpiece Fairytale of New York to Christmas cooking with Mark Moriarty and Rory O’Connell
Long day’s journey into Nenagh - Frank McNally on the stress of covering celebrity funerals
Deadlines, from filing copy to car park closures, leave this journalist late to the party
An Irishwoman’s Christmas while sailing round the world: ‘I made fish tacos while The Pogues blared from our boat’
‘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
Shane MacGowan bows out as thousands line streets on a rainy day in Nenagh
Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy
Crowds line Dublin streets to cheer, sing and bid farewell to ‘huge legend’ Shane MacGowan
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
Shane MacGowan funeral: Nick Cave and Johnny Depp play roles in star-studded service in Nenagh
Funeral featuring some of The Pogues’ greatest hits concludes with The Parting Glass as thousands line streets for singer who died aged 65
Shane MacGowan funeral cortege to pass through Dublin streets today on final farewell
Procession to be led by Artane Band and lone piper as horse-drawn carriage bears coffin ahead of Co Tipperary burial
Shane MacGowan captured what it was to struggle on the margins of a place that didn’t want you
Pogues frontman gave lyrical meaning to the tension of an Ireland that demands a complex present while yearning for a simple past
Newstalk Breakfast duo preside over fractious debate as Shane MacGowan’s widow shares fond memories on RTÉ
Radio review: Fault lines trump fairy tales as Newstalk Breakfast duo do their own thing
Wired Up — Frank McNally on the ambiguities of a classic by The Pogues
A transatlantic ballad on the life and death of a man called Big Jim Dwyer
Fairytale of New York may finally reach the Christmas number one spot following death of Shane MacGowan
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 pay tribute to Shane MacGowan, who gave voice to their identity
London Irish gather to pay tribute to late Pogues frontman who gave voice to their identity
From Shane MacGowan to Joe Brolly to Conor McGregor, Irishness is always up for grabs
Untethered nationalism is heady and exciting right up to the point where it gets out of hand – sports fans know this better than anyone
Shane McGowan and The Pogues moved Irish music, like most Irish people, from the countryside to the dirty city
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
‘Shane had many acquaintances, but just a few friends . . . we knew who was who’
Pogues singer had a deep connection with Tipperary, and some of its pubs, where he said he felt at home
Shane MacGowan talks to The Irish Times, 1985: ‘They call us drunk because we’re Irish, or maybe because we are’
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’
Shane MacGowan: From céilí-punk rebel to feted genius, addict to national institution
Despite the many medical challenges of his final years, he retained an admirably cussed streak to the end
The Pogues: A waste of time were it not for Shane MacGowan’s songs
From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985
Shane MacGowan: Young, gifted and London Irish
The Pogues in the early 1980s felt to thousands of second-generation Irish like the answer to an unspoken prayer
BP Fallon on his photo of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor ‘having a vibe’ in 1988
Their record Haunted, sung by MacGowan and O’Connor in 1995, is now a classic
The Irish Times view on Shane MacGowan: a diamond of the diaspora
A creature of the late night, MacGowan seemed to rage against the dawning of the day as much as the dying of the light
Shane MacGowan’s wild scream was the very soul of Ireland
The singer’s voice made Rob Doyle feel braver, more reckless and strong
Shane MacGowan at McGonagles and the SFX: How The Irish Times reviewed two Pogues gigs in 1985
From the archive: Brian Kilmartin and Dave Fanning were at the Dublin venues in March and September for the band’s early Irish appearances
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