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Shane MacGowan was seen enjoying a drink as he and his wife Victoria Mary Clarke joined guests to celebrate his book launch in Dublin on Tuesday evening.

The Irish singer, 64, sat in a wheelchair as he arrived at the event and enjoyed what seemed to be a glass of wine. He has been wheelchair-bound since fracturing his pelvis in 2015.

His journalist wife and long-term partner Victoria, 56, was seen smiling as she wrapped her arms around his shoulders as they looked through his new book.

Fun times: Shane MacGowan was seen enjoying a drink as he and his wife Victoria Mary Clarke (both pictured with Louis Walsh and Patrick Bergin) joined guests to celebrate his book launch in Dublin on Tuesday evening

Fun times: Shane MacGowan was seen enjoying a drink as he and his wife Victoria Mary Clarke (both pictured with Louis Walsh and Patrick Bergin) joined guests to celebrate his book launch in Dublin on Tuesday evening

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Shane, who has suffered physically from years of drinking and drug abuse, cut a smart figure in black trousers and a T-shirt, which he paired with a dark blazer and scarf.

The Pogues star shielded his eyes with a pair of dark sunglasses and sported a wide brimmed black hat to complete his laidback ensemble.

Shane celebrated the launch of his limited edition book with his wife, sister Siobhan, 59, and the likes of Patrick Bergin, Louis Walsh, Peter Coonan and Diarmuid Gavin.

Victoria, who claimed in 2016 that Shane was sober for the 'first time in several years', looked stylish in a black ensemble embellished with gold detailing.

Book launch: Shane was seen enjoying a drink as he celebrated the launch of his book The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold in Dublin, just weeks after his art exhibition

Book launch: Shane was seen enjoying a drink as he celebrated the launch of his book The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold in Dublin, just weeks after his art exhibition 

The book, The Eternal Buzz and the Crock of Gold, features Shane's illustrations, self-portraits, school essays and unpublished handwritten lyrics.

The 502-page, limited edition monograph also includes a critical essay written by The Sunday Times' art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, along with contributions by Miss Clarke, actor Johnny Depp and MacGowan himself.

Johnny Depp said of Shane's work: 'Shane's visions will speak for themselves. Sometimes they will invoke wonder, sometimes they might appear decidedly threatening, but, regardless of medium, his work will always be full of poetry.'

His artworks have been immortalised in print after he launched an exhibition of his work at the Andipa Gallery in Knightsbridge last month.

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