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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
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From the archive: How The Irish Times reviewed Rum, Sodomy & the Lash, the band’s second album, in 1985
Shane MacGowan Tribute: Saying Goodbye to the Pogues Genius
I take serious issue with Jennifer Rubin’s piece (‘Despite crass effort to flip the narrative, Al-Shifa was used as a military facility’, Irish Independent, November 21).