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The most famous and best-remembered songs of emigration and exile. Millions of Irish have left Ireland since the Famine and brought with them many songs of emigration and exile.

On January 18, 1988, The Pogues released their third album, the acclaimed, Steve Lillywhite-produced If I Should Fall From Grace with God. Featuring classics...

This week two Irish revolutionaries were brought home to rest. One was born in New Jersey, Chuck Feeney, and the other was born in Kent, England, Shane MacGowan. 

The ashes of legendary musician Shane MacGowan will be scattered on the river Shannon this weekend.

The ashes of legendary musician Shane MacGowan will be scattered on the river Shannon this weekend.

The Dublin singer has revealed how the Pogues frontman gave him sound life advice.

The Columbia Hotel in London is famed as a home away from home for travelling musicians and singers visiting the British capital and invariably you might bump into someone you’d know.

THE Columbia Hotel in London is famed as a home away from home for travelling musicians and singers visiting the British capital and invariably you might bump into someone you’d know.

Shane MacGowan was among the most talented song-writers of his generation, a performer with remarkable stage presence and a Rabelaisian character who based his hard-drinking lifestyle on bohemian Dublin characters like Brendan Behan and Gainor Crist the feckless anti-hero of The Ginger Man.

PHILIP NOLAN: Shane MacGowans death yesterday brings to a close one of the most rambunctious musical and personal lives of the past 40 years.