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Shane MacGowan’s funeral on Friday will be held in Nenagh, where he spent happy holidays when he was growing up.

From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985

The venerated and critically acclaimed Shane MacGowan has died in Dublin at the age of 65.

Despite the many medical challenges of his final years, he retained an admirably cussed streak to the end

The drink, dentistry and other stories that overshadowed the music of the late former Pogues singer.

Dorian Lynskey on the chaos and contradictions that made The Pogues’ frontman one of the greatest songwriters of our time, with ‘a mouth like a war zone, a laugh like a poltergeist and a voice like a ragged flame’

Shane MacGowan Tribute: Saying Goodbye to the Pogues Genius

Musician had just returned home to be with his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, after a lengthy stay in hospital

The former Pogues frontman created, for a brief period, songs of incisive beauty before addiction led to his ejection from the band, although his genius shone once more with the Popes

The singer brought devilish charisma to The Pogues but paid a heavy price for his success