On the day of Shane MacGowan's funeral , his heartbroken wife found comfort in the same thing that moved and captivated the rest of the world that afternoon - the music that filled a parish church in Nenagh, County Tipperary.
Mundy and Camille O'Sullivan performed Haunted. Nick Cave sang A Rainy Night in Soho. And Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neil led mourners in a send-off rendition of Fairytale of New York .
"I thought, well, if we just got all the people who were at the funeral on a record, that'd be something pretty special," Victoria Mary Clarke told BBC News NI.
On Friday, three years after her husband's death, that idea came to fruition with the release of 20th Century Paddy.
"It must be wonderful for Shane... I think up in heaven, he's very aware of what's going on," said Clarke.
There are 36 tracks on the new album - all penned by MacGowan - and 40 bands and soloists.
Among those are contributions from two acclaimed Irish artists who have passed away since recording their covers for the album.
Glen Hansard is featured performing Bottle of Smoke, while Moya Brennan provides her interpretation of Mother Mo Chroi.
"I feel love and connection between the artists (on the album) and Shane.
"And also, you know, for me personally, it feels like a lot of love because when somebody sends something nice to Shane, they're sending it to me."
The Pogues frontman died aged 65 at his Dublin home in 2023, following a hospital stay after being diagnosed with encephalitis.
Victoria was too fair to say who delivered her favourite cover on the album, but she was frank about how she personally benefited from the project.
"It gave me so much pleasure and it gave me so much joy and hope for the future to work on it because it gave me something to do every single day for three years and it got me out of bed and it got me to make new friends."
In the aftermath of her husband's death, that "social life and a sense of purpose" was invaluable to her.
But while the album is certainly bound up with MacGowan's death, it's not overshadowed by it.
"I think the artwork, if I had to pick, might be my favourite thing about the album," she chirped, an artist herself.
The term a 'who's who' doesn't quite capture the calibre and genre-defying diversity of the line-up featured on 20th Century Paddy.
There are hall-of-famers like Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.
Iconic, generation-crossing indie bands like The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Libertines.
And for anyone who needs reminding of how far above its weight Ireland punches when it comes to music, have a look at the back of 20th Century Paddy.
U2, Hozier and Bob Geldof - people with permanent residencies at top of the music industry.
There are stalwarts and custodians of the Irish folk tradition, Damien Dempsey perhaps foremost among them.
And lots of other artists, less established but very much in their ascendancy - Amble, Kingfishr and Madra Salach, to name but a few.
David Keenan, a singer-songwriter from Dundalk, whose thoughtful lyrics and intense live performances are invoke something of MacGowan himself, told BBC News NI he was honoured to be asked to add to the album.
"Fairytale of New York is as old as Christmas for me," said David.
But his epiphany moment came when an uncle gave him The Pogues' third album.
At 11 years old, Keenan said If I Should Fall from Grace with God "lit a flame" inside him.
"Up 'til that point it was just chart music.
"That (album) was the first time I heard all these references to mythology and drink and rebellion and, you know, heartache.
The Louth man described it like an awakening.
"It gave me permission as a kid to get stuck into real lyric writing. And to do it in the traditional and folk form."
On 20th Century Paddy, Keenan covered Sick Bed of Cúchulainn - a celtic punk ballad from their 1985 album Rum Sodomy and the Lash, the central allusion of which is the mythical Irish warrior Cúchulainn.
This has real significance for Keenan, who as a child in Louth, used to play near the standing stone (Clochafarmore) where Cuchulainn was said to have been killed.
And the circularity didn't stop there.
He did his recording of the song in Drumlish, County Longford, where he said "Shane used to record too".
"It was just was surreal and at the same time perfect, you know."
Before putting his version down on tape, Keenan did something few artists would have done: he recited a poem he had written in Irish asking permission from MacGowan to sing the song.
"I felt connected to Shane's energy during the recording, you know."
Keenan said the quality of the artists on 20th Century Paddy showed the "global respect that was there for Shane's abilities, you know, as a lyric writer, a poet".
He added that, at a time when there is "a lot of pressure on young musicians now to go viral on TikTok and dumb themselves down... here's an artist who didn't do that".
"In an age of ChatGPT and generative AI", said Keenan, MacGowan is a reminder for "human beings to be authentic".
Keenan's top picks from the album included Summer in Siam covered by Tom Waits, Jimmy Artache's version of USA, Glenn Hansard's Bottle of Smoke and Steve Earle's If I Should Fall From Grace With God.
But, given the quality on the album, the list, he said, could have gone on... and on... and on.
