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| My Priory Diary Pop star Shane MacGowan wanted to get off the drink and his girlfriend, writer Victoria Clarke, was suffering from depression. From social phobia to psychodrama, art therapy to pottery, Victoria Clarke threw herself into life at the Priory. Here's her bittersweet diary. Sunday Independent. 17 Dec 2000 |
| it's a long way to go... to tipperary, for a pocketful of mumbles & a fucked liver Eventful sojourn with Shane MacGowan and Victoria Clarke to Shane's birthplace in Silvermines july 2001 |
| A Drink With Shane MacGowan Act One A rugged Irish cottage, night. A fierce and loquacious wind tears, mercilessly, mirthlessly, at the simple thatched roof. An immodest fire illuminates the shadows, boldly. Out of the ashes, a luminous face looms, magnificently. A trembling hand taps a cigarette, certainly, on a filthy trouser leg... |
| A Drink With Shane MacGowan Act Seven Shannon Airport, Ireland, morning. An immense, immeasurable expanse of verdant land rises up to meet our couple, as their plane lands on friendly soil, finally. The broad, majestic Shannon sparkles and dazzles and vocalises a greeting, mightily... |
| MacGowan on... drink, death and devious Jesuits 'The first horse I ever bet on was called Maxwell House and he came in at 10-1. I was five years old. So I was a regular gambler after that. And the way my Auntie Nora taught me the gospel was we used to do the Irish Sweepstake together and she used to buy me packets of cigarettes...' The Observer 11 Mar 2001 |
| My hooligan days with Shane SHE was just 16 years' old when she first saw a picture of him in a music magazine above the caption "Shane O'Hooligan". Four years later she was exchanging passionate post-gig kisses and rolling on the floor of his dressing room |
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| STEWART ENQUIRY ON TOUR To save face the Idler's racing correspondent, Stewart Enquiry, promises a special report on the Punchestown six day festival, Ireland. His companion on this mission? Shane MacGowan ... as related by JOCK SCOT |
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| Hello! wedding, goodbye credibility Victoria Mary Clarke ... A few years ago, I was engaged to marry my long-term partner at the time, Shane MacGowan. And even though he was appalled at the notion, I began to wonder what we would be offered if we decided to sell our wedding. Sunday Independent 17 Aug 2003 |
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