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'Waking up in Warsaw, Poland, while on tour, to the news of Shane MacGowan’s passing was rough,' the band comment.

There are 60 cities around the world that have been given the Unesco designation World City of Music, and Belfast is the only place to be bestowed with that honour on the island of Ireland.

PJ Harvey talks singing in the dialect of her home county Dorset and how love conquers all on her 10th album, 'I Inside the Old Year Dying.'

We are ruled by people who treat us like morons and daily torture our language in their pursuit of popularity and electoral success, writes Chris Deerin.

In the wake of the recent passing of Pogues' frontman Shane MacGowan, the band's famous Christmas song has stormed to Irish Charts and currently sits at no.1.

A funeral for Shane MacGowan will be held on Friday, 8 December, with the service also open to the public.

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.

The Pogues in the early 1980s felt to thousands of second-generation Irish like the answer to an unspoken prayer

Guardian readers pay tribute to the late Pogues frontman, who soundtracked their childhood, inspired their art and PhDs, and performed some of the most raucous, beer-soaked gigs ever