{"id":622621,"date":"2026-08-05T23:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622621\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T23:04:11","slug":"maurice-macgowan-father-of-shane-macgowan-dies-following-short-illness-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622621\/","title":{"rendered":"Maurice MacGowan, father of Shane MacGowan, dies following short illness \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maurice MacGowan, the father of the late musician <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shane-macgowan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/shane-macgowan\/\">Shane MacGowan<\/a>, has died. He was in his mid-90s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He died in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/university-hospital-limerick\/\">University Hospital Limerick<\/a> on Monday after a short illness, a notice posted on rip.ie said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Originally from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/dublin\">Dublin<\/a>, Maurice MacGowan died \u201cpeacefully, surrounded by his family\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His son, best known as the frontman of The Pogues and for their songs Rainy Night in Soho and Fairytale of New York, died aged 65 in November 2023 after an extended period of poor health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maurice\u2019s wife and Shane\u2019s mother, Therese, who was originally from Co <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/tipperary\/\">Tipperary<\/a>, was killed in car crash in Ballintoher, near Nenagh, on New Year\u2019s Day 2017, aged 87. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Maurice MacGowan lived for much of his later years in Nenagh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His funeral service will take place at Shannon Crematorium on Saturday, August 8th. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He is survived by his daughter, the writer Siobhan MacGowan, daughter-in-law and Shane\u2019s widow Victoria Mary Clarke, son-in-law Anthony, his nieces and nephews and extended family and friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maurice MacGowan, the father of the late musician Shane MacGowan, has died. He was in his mid-90s. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[75],"tags":[52,18,117,19,17,36193,2121,7586],"class_list":["post-622621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-dublin","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-shane-macgowan","tag-tipperary","tag-university-hospital-limerick"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117045406532092967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}