{"id":425087,"date":"2026-08-04T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/glen-hansard-laid-to-rest-at-dublin-cathedral-service\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T17:35:00","slug":"glen-hansard-laid-to-rest-at-dublin-cathedral-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/glen-hansard-laid-to-rest-at-dublin-cathedral-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard laid to rest at Dublin cathedral service"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who won an Academy Award for the song<\/a> \u201cFalling Slowly,\u201d was laid to rest on Tuesday at St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Dublin. He was 56.<\/p>\n

Hansard died in the early hours of July 29 following a motorcycle crash at Strawberry Beds in Lucan, on the outskirts of Dublin. Irish police have not released further details on the crash or opened a public inquiry into its cause.<\/p>\n

More than 40,000 people watched Tuesday\u2019s funeral service online, according to organizers, as mourners gathered inside the cathedral to remember a musician widely regarded as one of Ireland\u2019s own. Fellow musicians led tributes throughout the service. U2 frontman Bono read the lyrics to the band\u2019s song \u201cA Beautiful Day\u201d and shared a voice note from singer Patti Smith, who could not attend in person. Members of Hansard\u2019s longtime band The Frames also spoke.<\/p>\n

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Hansard first reached international audiences through the 2007 film \u201cOnce,\u201d a low-budget Irish musical drama in which he starred alongside Czech singer Marketa Irglova. He wrote and performed the film\u2019s soundtrack, and the pair later dated for a period after filming. Their song \u201cFalling Slowly\u201d won the Academy Award for best original song at the 2008 ceremony, beating out entries from bigger-budget productions and turning the two little-known musicians into overnight stars.<\/p>\n

Hansard\u2019s career began decades earlier as a busker on Dublin\u2019s Grafton Street before he formed The Frames in 1990, a band he fronted for more than three decades alongside a solo career that produced several studio albums. He continued to tour into his fifties and remained closely associated with the city where he was born and where Tuesday\u2019s public wake and funeral took place.<\/p>\n

Tributes from the wider music community continued through the week, with fans gathering outside the cathedral and leaving flowers and handwritten notes referencing his songs. Irish broadcasters carried extended coverage of the service, and details on any additional memorial events had not been announced as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

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Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who won an Academy Award for the song \u201cFalling Slowly,\u201d was laid to rest on Tuesday at St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral in Dublin. He was 56. Hansard died in the early hours of July 29 following a motorcycle crash at Strawberry Beds in Lucan, on the outskirts of Dublin. Irish police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/inews.zoombangla.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-10.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailybanglanewspapers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}