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The making of vulnerable genius Shane MacGowan: Drinking two bottles of Guinness a day aged five yet reading literary classics aged 12, how a divergent upbringing continued throughout the life of a poetic, fast-living punk who turned Irish music inside out

PHILIP NOLAN: Shane MacGowan s death yesterday brings to a close one of the most rambunctious musical and personal lives of the past 40 years.

How Shane MacGowan first tried to make it on the punk scene by calling himself Shane O'Hooligan and pretending to enjoy cannibalism at gigs - before he created The Pogues and became the widely-loved genius behind Fairytale of New York

From his gilded beginnings at private schools, MacGowan transformed himself into the drunken icon of Irish music, a man who first hit the news pages under the headline: Cannablism at Clash gig .

Shane MacGowan won literary prize as a schoolboy, 1971 article shows

Shane MacGowan obituary: Rank outsider who became one of Ireland's most feted sons – The Irish Times

Pogues frontman kicked open the door to Irish music for millions who might never have experienced it, instilled pride among the Irish in Britain and made Ireland itself cool

The man who epitomised punk rock: The Pogues' frontman Shane MacGowan was a belligerent former drug addict with a love of cursing and raising hell...but that didn't stop him becoming the unlikely patron saint of Christmas

With his double act with the tragic Kirsty MacColl on 1987 festive hit Fairytale of New York, MacGowan cemented himself into the hearts of millions