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?
Clarke is 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.
[1][3] She is the author of Angel in Disguise, a memoir and spiritual guide written after she split up with MacGowan in her late 30s.
[4] Clarke had a long-term relationship with singer-songwriter Shane MacGowan, whom she met at 16, eight years his junior.
[9] In December 2009, Clarke and McGowan appeared together on the RTÉ One reality television special Victoria and Shane Grow Their Own in which they attempted to tend to their own vegetables at an allotment in Dublin.