Victoria Mary Clarke

Victoria Mary Clarke is an Irish journalist and writer known for her decades-long relationship with singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, whom she first met when she was 16 and to whom she was married from 2018 until his death in 2023. She has written for British and Irish newspapers and magazines and is the author of two books, A Drink with Shane MacGowan (2001) and Angel in Disguise? (2007). She has appeared on a number of RTÉ television shows, including The Late Late Show and the reality television special Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own.