{"id":622825,"date":"2026-08-06T02:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622825\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T02:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T02:13:20","slug":"shane-macgowans-father-maurice-passes-away-after-short-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/622825\/","title":{"rendered":"Shane MacGowan&#8217;s father Maurice passes away after short illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The father of Pogues frontman  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/arid-41286040.html\">Shane MacGowan<\/a> has passed away after a short illness.<\/p>\n<p>Maurice MacGowan died on Monday surrounded by his family at  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/news\/munster\/arid-41891569.html\">University Hospital Limerick<\/a>, according to a notice on RIP.ie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He is predeceased by his wife Therese and his son Shane, the frontman of the Pogues, who died in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">His family said that the time that the outpouring of grief for Shane was a source of comfort for his elderly father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The notice said Maurice \u201cwill be sadly missed by his loving daughter Siobhan, son-in-law Anthony, daughter-in-law Victoria (Mary Clarke) nieces, nephews, extended family, and friends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Maurice&#8217;s wife Therese was killed on New Year\u2019s Day in 2017 when the car she was driving his a wall at Ballintoher, Co Tipperary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A funeral service for Maurice, who spent most of his life in  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/maintopics\/tipperary-news_topic-5331491.html\">Tipperary<\/a>, will be held at Shannon crematorium in Clare on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was too frail to travel to his son\u2019s wedding to Victoria Mary Clarke in Denmark in 2018 and wished the couple well at the time of their star-studded ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He was hugely supportive of his son throughout his career and Shane always spoke about the influence his parents had on his musical life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has passed away after a short illness. Maurice MacGowan died on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[208650,9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,36193,7,8],"class_list":["post-622825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-tipperary-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-eire","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-shane-macgowan","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117046149544889789","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622825","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=622825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}