Growing up with Shane MacGowan | 'We had a lot of craic'

Siobhan MacGowan is joining us to chat about her debut novel, growing up with Shane and working with Van Morrison, Pogues and the Dubliners

[@Nige-eq3dv]

Im adopted not knowing my birth family. My adopted grandad was from ireland and im proud to say i have irish ancestry if not by blood but by a lot of love❤. Rip shane.

[@maryknight4823]

Hi lm was also adopted at 7years old, and like you lve never known my birth parents who were also lrish.. Rip Shane..

[@kaizer316]

what a lovely woman who did her brother proud at the funeral

[@badgirl-67]

What a wonderful sister❤...🕯🖤RIP♡Shane MacGowan🖤🕯

[@studiocelestedesign]

Wow something runs in the family there; she’s also a very riveting and charismatic storyteller. You can tell the art of the story was instilled at a young age.

[@zellah]

My condolences to you Siobhan and your father.

[@CathleenHarty-jq6zs]

SIOBHAN MY SYMPATHY ON SHANES PASSING RIP. AGAIN A VERY INTRIGUING CULTURED CLASS LADY❤

[@dibble2005]

she is one lovely person.

[@asbisi]

I want to read her book now, wanted to hear more. She is a very interesting person, what a family. R.I.P. Shane, I am glad their father still has Siobhan.

[@otaku1524]

Bless her heart, she probably had a large and endless variety of Shane story at her big brother.

[@kittymaher9395]

Proud of you Sinead , we love you , 💚💚💚

[@kittymaher9395]

Wonderful book, I loved it , 💚

[@lauriescott6564]

Sorry for your loss Siobhan

[@ritadonnelly8820]

horrible body language between the presenter's lady has her back to her co presenter get it right rte

[@ritadonnelly8820]

omg that woman presenting is terrible her back to her co presenter can't watch her rte gone to the dogs

[@heathercampbell2686]

Beautiful lady beautiful soul ❤

[@lottiehowes585]

R.I.P Shane ❤😢

[@janstevens8754]

RIP Shane. 🙏🙏🙏

[@ninaturner1546]

Looks a lot like him tho.

[@SeanDonlon]

😢rip shane ta bron orm siobhan met you when you were doing the art fest in nenagh !

[@caroledrury1411]

What a brave woman to have to deal with such strangeness and to think that Elvis Costello is the one responsible for this sad outcome

[@simoncanterbury]

Elvis Costello 'responsible for this sad outcome'.? Please elucidate. Surely you're not suggesting that Costello caused his early demise. That would be a bizarre thing to say.

[@TheBLGL]

What sad outcome? He lived until 65 and was a major alcoholic. I’d say he did well.

[@KZ-gi7ey]

“Growing up in England was no problem.” There’s an admission in the negative. Then goes on to describe all the anti-Irish sentiment in England.

[@ArchieFatcackie]

Nonsense

[@headron66]

Garbage!

[@Chillednfunked]

There’s hardly any Anti-Irish sentiment in England

[@thomasreilly6362]

Siobhan was young and was shielded from a lot of the anti Irish sentiment. The majority of people in Britain didn't know or care about what was happening in Northern Ireland in the 70's

[@sixer6er]

Oh shut up. The English never bothered the Irish. That’s why they all queued up to go there. Your hate for the English is pathetically antiquated

[@Redandwhite_bluesuedeshoes]

I was raised in Australia…. Anglo-Saxon culture doesn’t let you forget that you’re not ‘one of them’….

[@ArchieFatcackie]

More nonsense

[@Icanbacktrailers]

That’s the same in any country

[@ArchieFatcackie]

I mean England hasn’t any immigrants they must all be marginalised “they’re not one of us” Oh sorry a person of colour from an ethnic minority is running the country. Have you ever watched TV in England? Those people who are “not one of us” are literally all over it. You need to reign in your bigotry.

[@kathybutterfield2760]

I wonder how Shane broke his pelvis, bless him. When he fell off a train?

[@patrickcallahan9599]

Dad's 92 in Tipperary, Shane's 106

[@michaeljones1445]

I always thought he was a born and bred cockney...am i missing something?

[@dalebrennan7615]

County Tipp rep of ireland

[@frankmaxwell5193]

Born in kent. ireland age 2 to 6 , then family moved to England again.

[@dalebrennan7615]

@@frankmaxwell5193 the irish blood stayed with him in his song writeing thousands are sailing been a classic

[@frankmaxwell5193]

@dalebrennan7615 I agree, just answering the question.👍

[@andrewfeaver2805]

Cockney borne in Tunbridge Wells ???

[@sixer6er]

Hey. They delete posts they don’t approve of. How not cool

[@richardwellend3806]

She got better teeth

[@robstraton7842]

Shane’s teeth in his hay day looked like a vandalized graveyard

[@seannohilly6928]

Idiotic remark richardbellend

[@johnmc3862]

@@robstraton7842Like a Donegal graveyard.

[@erinkitner7978]

But he didn't gaf & he pulled A LOT of attractive women. So his attraction surpasses his teeth.

[@kathybutterfield2760]

​@@johnmc3862 As an American I've seen a Donegal graveyard and know just what you are saying... poetic though

[@spurs7151]

If Shane Macgowan were a footballer, he'd have played for England. In music, there was more money in being Irish, playing Irish style music. Identity is often a career choice.

[@TheBLGL]

His sister’s name is Siobhan, he’s Irish, just because he lived somewhere else doesn’t mean his ethnicity changed. 🙄

[@spurs7151]

@@TheBLGL The overwhelming influence on a person's identity is where they grow up. It trumps everything. Shane Macgowan was primarily a Londoner.

[@bernardpearce3478]

​@@spurs7151He was a friend of Sinn Fein & supported the cause. How many non Irish Londoners did that? None.

[@spurs7151]

@bernardpearce3478 That's makes him a terrorist sympathiser not an Irish man, or is Jeremy Corhyn Irish as well?

[@bernardpearce3478]

@@spurs7151 Jeremy openly had dialogue, Thatcher's government forbade it but was having secret meetings with the IRA. Blair openly met them & with Clinton & the Irish government on board reached a peace agreement. British military admitted the IRA could not be beaten. It was a 30 year old stalemate of carnage. IRA decommissioned & Sinn Fein its political wing entered politics & are now the largest party in control in the North. Your Military might beaten to a stalemate by volunteer students, farmers & the working class. Same will happen in Palestine, justice will prevail. As Bobby Sands said, "Our revenge will be the laughter of our children" 😏

[@taltosr]

4:20 oh yeh...that is what wrecked them not the substances and alcohol abuse...😂😂😅😅

[@barbarabyers2721]

15 minutes of fame is burgeoning

[@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk]

😴 😴😴😴😴😴

[@badgirl-67]

What a wonderful sister❤...🕯🖤RIP♡Shane MacGowan🖤🕯