Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty The cause of death for The Pogues' bandleader Shane MacGowan has been revealed. The “Fairytale of New York” musician's wife Victoria Mary Clarke told the ...

Irish music and cultural festival is set to launch in Boston this year, headlined by The Pogues and Dropkick Murphys. Seisiún ...

Formed in London’s King’s Cross in 1982, The Pogues were originally named Pogue Mahone – an Anglicisation of the Irish phrase ...

Boston, get ready to say “dia duit” to Seisiún, a new Irish festival coming to The Stage at Suffolk Downs later this year.

Nearly three decades after launching NYC's Fleadh Festival celebrating global Irish culture, two of Fleadh's founders Joe ...

St. Patrick’s Day may be over, but our tribute to Shane MacGowen and The Pogues continues! Granted, The Pogues are one of ...

It’s 40 years in August since the Pogues put out their second album – Rum, Sodomy and the Lash, a No 13 hit at the time – and ...

Dropkick Murphys and The Pogues will headline the two-day festival. “It’s great to have such a big-time Irish festival back in Boston,” said Ken Casey of Dropkick Murphys in a statement.

The 56-year-old musician had last appeared publicly in August, when a host of artists -- among them Pogues singer Shane MacGowan -- staged a fundraiser in his honor.

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