The Pogues Perform "The Parting Glass" at Shane MacGowan's Funeral 

Truer words have never been spoken . In fact it was heartbreaking for me to see the Pogues for the very last time .

the real peter parker aka spiderman

too right this is out of this world super spiderman

I agree. You put it into words how I felt. A stunning performance.

He's a lovely guy. I met him and the crew except for Shane. The most genuine and down to earth guys you could meet.

I could have never done that, even for my best friend......I'm a cryer

Goodnight, and joy be with you all 😢 A great send-off for Shane, though.

⁠@@lindareidy2091I met Shane by chance in a bar in Aberdeen around 85 when the Pogues played Aberdeen, and Shane walked into the bar like Clint Eastwood in a spaghetti western film, and walked straight over to our table, and said to me and my then boyfriend, “you are the coolest guys in the room and not fckn squares, can I join you” so he pulled up a chair and by end of our chat he put us on the guest list and we walked into the gig with him, he was a laugh and a top man. The gig was great. Sleep easy Shane ❤

I felt it like yourself

the real spiderman

He also quoted Bob Dylan in his homily. He understood the moment

​@@derekdempsey8506the priest and many others were uncomfortable with hearing sl....etc in church...tht should ve been sung differently...

Truly heaven, Pogues also with John Sheahan from the Dubliners.

I was wondering if that was him!

​@KatharinaK117 the lyrics to that song should never been changed. All those versions that have been sanitised should never see the light of day again.

RIP also to their manager Frank Murray . Best band ever.😢

Goodbye Shane and Godbless you always .Thank you all at Shane's funeral service for the lovely songs.l loved the Proges, they were in my whole life, l am now 72 years old, and shall keep on playing Shane's music .Rest in peace forever .Warming wishes Elizabeth ,in Scotland.🙏🙏🙏🙏🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍻🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈

Almost? I'm in bits.

Almost? You're a hard man. 😊

Legend.

❤

Up the Gaels! ☘️💪

@@Occident.Yes indeed, all the way, Up the Gaels

Well said

Saw sad for ung widow frankie

I can't stop crying with each video clip or watching the funeral ❤from🇨🇦

Reason you didn't shed a tear is because they never gave you any money.

I agree. My grandparents emigrated to an Irish city for work, from a Gaeltacht area, and it hurts me deeply to see firsthand the hardline split between their culture and English speaking Ireland (my own primary culture). But today it's even harder to feel that to be Irish is something unique and to be treasured, as so many people take their cultural cues from places like the USA (many of the youngest people don't even have accents I recognise as Irish anymore) and certain parts of Dublin to a far greater extent than in the past it seems to me. Every generation we seem to become more and more culturally assimilated to the Greater Anglosphere, headed by the USA with Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland making up the body. Maybe I am overly acutely aware of this, as trips back to my grandparents area to visit family have shown me how poor the state of language and culture has become in many parts of what was in my grandparents day a strongly Irish speaking area (my cousins were raised there with one Irish speaking father and one English speaking mother from elsewhere, and they were raised with English. Their Irish came from the school and is quite poor compared to their English and nothing like their fathers or my grandparents Irish). Sorry, I went off on a tangent... Ar dheis Dé go raibh t'anam Shane. Ní bheidh a leithéid ann arís.

@@cigh7445I see comparisons with what has happened in my country with the language(wales) my brother born in 1958 was the first member of my family to have english as a first language myself and my sister born a few years later are the same(but we are around 60% fluent) the thing that really gets me is my father and his family were nationalists(as am i and my brother,sister) he would speak welsh to his family and anybody he knew but english to us you don,t think of the reasons why at the time but as you get older the only question is why? he has passed now and i never got to ask that question, but im proud to say my two children are fluent and the eldest is doing a phd in welsh at university, the rest of the world would think it mad that a family could live in the same house and speak two languages that some members of the family could not fully understand but its all about keeping language and heritage alive, best of luck to you, yma o hyd.

You mean apart from our economy ? Yawn......

@@creekyknee I don't think you really understand. Sorry to bore you.

Well said👏🏽

And Kirsty

yeah, he's jamming with Joe again!

Got me a six pack of real Guinness . Gone afterwards. Very moving ceremony.

Yep a poisonous depressant is exactly what gloomy people need.

this >

One of the few non-child abusers, unlike his mates and the evil nuns😡