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Honour Shane McGowan and the Pogues – “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six”

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Shane McGowan and his partner Victoria Mary Clarke

Shane McGowan died on November 30 2023.

In 1988 Shane McGowan and the Pogues released “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six”

The song was banned by the British Independent Broadcasting Authority.

Viewers will be mightily impressed by Shane McGowan’s response to an Irish journalist’s suggestion that he might regret writing the song.

The Birmingham 6 – Paddy Hill, Richard McIlkenny, Johnny Walker, Hugh Callaghan, Billy Power, and Gerard Hunter – were sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975 following their false convictions for the 1974 Birmingham pub bombings. Their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory and quashed by the Court of Appeal on 14 March 1991.

Thom McGinty portrays “British Justice” in a Dublin “Parade of Innocence” in December 1989 – a huge crowd attended.

John Meehan November 30 2023

Written by tomasoflatharta

Nov 30, 2023 at 11:40 pm

Posted in Appalling Vista, Britain, Ireland, Justice, Lord Denning, Miscarriages of Justice, Shane McGowan and the Pogues, The Birmingham Six, The Diceman - Thom McGinty