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“In Ireland, folk music is a living tradition,” a crotchety old drunk in a Galway pub once told me. It wasn’t simply about revering the past by teaching children the songs of their forefathers, he added. Each new generation adds to that tradition by adding songs of their own.
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The singer brought a sound and instrumentation that borrowed heavily from Irish traditional music, but played with a thoroughly modern punk-rock fury. It was a genre that really didn’t exist until MacGowan landed there, writes Jim Sullivan.
Pogues singer Shane MacGowan died of pneumonia at 65; his public funeral is slated for County Tipperary in Ireland on Friday (Dec. 8).