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‘These are her people’: Friends and neighbours remember ‘Queen of the Liberties’ Brenda Fricker
The street-lined crowd claps as the funeral cortege passes. Inside the church the service is simple but beautiful
Mourners gather en masse to bid poignant farewell to beloved Glen Hansard
Stars turn out for funeral, but brother’s voice gives all pause for thought in St Patrick’s Cathedral
Glen Hansard funeral in pictures: Bono, Eddie Vedder and Damien Dempsey among mourners
Crowds lined the street outside of Dublin’s St Patrick’s Cathedral to bid the musician farewell
Glen Hansard funeral: A wicker coffin, a grieving widow and a son too young to be there
The service for the Ballymun musician felt more like a party where he was the only one missing from the celebrations
Glen Hansard funeral: Life of ‘ordinary Ballymun man’ celebrated by fellow musicians
As it happened: Service filled with song, poetry and heartfelt tributes to a giant of Irish music
Glen Hansard wake: Musician rests in peace to backdrop of fiddles, flutes and songs
The Coolin, Spancil Hill, the Parting Glass, and Raglan Road among the many traditional tunes performed
All Together Now 2026: The weekend in pictures
From Britpop rockers Pulp on Friday to electronic dance duo Disclosure’s closing set on Sunday evening, 2026’s All Together Now saw a weekend stacked with music, laughs and eccentric fashion
Enoch Burke v Glen Hansard: Where is the line when it comes to protest?
There is evidence of shifting attitudes on what constitutes legitimate protest
All Together Now 2026 highs and lows: Kneecap’s Irish Goodbye, €11 curry chips and Kate Nash’s tin whistle
Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford was packed with 35,000 festivalgoers over the weekend. Here’s what we loved and what we didn’t
Christy Moore at All Together Now: A rousing Auld Triangle is dedicated to the late Glen Hansard
Singer (81) crams a lifetime of emotions, activism and call-to-arms songwriting into boisterous 60-minute set
Ireland has become a colder house for artists like Glen Hansard
It is not an accident that The Frames made their first post-Island record with financial backing from Whelan’s, the venue at the heart of the Dublin scene Hansard did more than anyone to birth
Gardaí trying to piece together Glen Hansard’s last movements after leaving west Dublin pub
Funeral at St Patrick’s Cathedral on Tuesday to follow public wake on Monday at Royal Hospital Kilmainham
Public wake for Glen Hansard to take place next week ahead of funeral
Swell Season collaborator Markéta Irglová shares condolences with Glen Hansard’s family: ‘May his light shine on’
In pictures: Festival-goers arrive for All Together Now
Seventh edition of All Together Now will see Kneecap, Pulp and Underworld among headline acts
Thousands of music, Mayo and Glen Hansard fans descend on All Together Now
Kneecap, Pulp and Disclosure to headline this weekend’s Waterford music festival
A week of deep emotions in Ireland: It started with unbridled joy, ended in unvarnished grief
Radio: Arena assesses the late Glen Hansard’s legacy with raw honesty, while Drivetime discusses Mayo’s historic win in novel terms
‘It just feels like losing a friend’: Glen Hansard fans take to the street to sing and remember
Crowds gather in Dublin to pay tribute to much-loved musician
Glen Hansard died in single-vehicle crash in Dublin in early hours of Wednesday
Incident took place 2-3km from a pub where he had spent time playing music
Barack Obama pays tribute to ‘great musician’ Glen Hansard
Members of public rue ‘dark day over Dublin’ as hundreds queue to sign book of condolences for musician who died in motorcycle crash
Glen Hansard as an activist: A ‘giant in the fight against homelessness’
Annual Christmas Eve charity busk organised by singer-songwriter celebrated its 15th anniversary last year
Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be
The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together
Tributes paid to Glen Hansard: ‘A troubadour whose gift for storytelling brought so much joy’
Catherine Connolly, Micheál Martin, Rachel Zegler and more pay tribute following death of Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard obituary: Musician who went from busking in Dublin to world’s biggest stages
Singer-songwriter and activist found fame with The Frames and The Commitments and won an Oscar for best song
The Irish Times view on Glen Hansard: a singular, generous artist
From Ballymun to the Academy awards, he carried the same conviction
‘Such an angelic presence’: Bono pays tribute to late friend Glen Hansard
U2 frontman was a regular participant in the Christmas Eve busk with the Oscar-winning singer
Glen Hansard: How a kid from Ballymun became ‘the unofficial national bard’ with Patrick Freyne
In the News podcast: Patrick Freyne remembers the musician who died in a motorbike crash
Glen Hansard was a leader, an indomitable force and a natural disruptor
The Ballymun man’s sudden death has been deeply felt throughout the Irish music and arts community
Glen Hansard the film star was at the centre of two key moments in Irish cinema
His best-song Oscar win with Markéta Irglová in 2008 alerted the world that the country’s screen industry was on the march
Glen Hansard: A life and music career in pictures
Musician and actor starred in The Commitments and with his band The Frames
The best and biggest music festivals to see around Ireland this summer
Your guide to live music for May, June, July and August in 2026 from CMAT, Forbidden Fruit, Fontaines DC, The Cure to Electric Picnic
Dermot Kennedy: ‘I was freaking out about my voice. I did two weeks where I didn’t speak’
Dermot Kennedy is one of Ireland's most successful music artists, with hundreds of millions of streams on Spotify and two sold-out gigs coming up at the Aviva, but naturally shy, and 'a bit of a loner' at heart, he finds touring hard. His new album is a declaration of allegiance to his home in Rathcoole in Dublin
Oscars 2026: All of Ireland’s Academy Award wins, including two doubles and a triple
If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners
Brendan Behan’s family ‘extremely proud’ as plaque is unveiled outside his childhood home in Dublin
Plaque unveiled outside playwright’s former childhood home in a part of Dublin that inspired many of his ‘great characters’
Glen Hansard: ‘Funny as it sounds with all the success, the money is not something that you just have’
The Frames and Swell Season frontman on giving back, speeding up and changing tack
Event guide: Hot Press’s 50th birthday gig, Dorothy Cross and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
January 31st-February 6th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Bono joins annual Christmas Eve busking session in Dublin city centre
Street concert to raises funds for Dublin Simon Community marks its 15th anniversary
Breaking Out: The remarkable life of gregarious and charismatic songwriter Fergus O’Farrell
Television: O’Farrell’s final years in Schull yank hardest at the heartstrings in this emotionally devastating documentary
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
August 9th-16th highlights: including The Hills Are Alive: A Year at Kylemore Abbey, Panorama: Lucy Letby - Who to Believe?, and Alien: Earth
New Irish albums reviewed: Sons of Southern Ulster, Poor Creature, Darragh Morgan, The Swell Season and California Irish
July 2025 releases include Through the Bridewell Gate, All Smiles Tonight, Forward and more
The Swell Season in Dublin review: Not a dry eye on the balcony for Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
NCH show is a chance for Hansard and Irglová to remember old times and reclaim lost ground
Event Guide: Forbidden Fruit, Swell Season and the other best things to do in Ireland this week
Ireland event guide May 31st-June 6th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Council to run the rule over Portobello house revival as Hugh Wallace deviates from the plan
Plus: Michael H Burke not sweating it over Ailesbury Road house price, Politico takes aim at ‘Europa Experience’ centres, and Fontaines DC are doing just nicely
Mary Poppins comes to Dublin: Behind the scenes of the all-singing, all-dancing Christmas show
There’s a burble of excitement at this intimate preview of scenes and songs from the Sherman brothers musical
Glen Hansard at Iveagh Gardens: Stage times, set list, ticket information, weather and more
Everything you need to know about the star’s Dublin concert on Saturday, July 6th
Mark Geary: In the Time of Locusts – Thoughtful, gracefully melodic songs that transport you
The Dubliner, one of Ireland’s best songwriters, has never wavered from his commendable craft in the face of commercial indifference
Music fans and shoppers sing along as Glen Hansard leads tribute to Shane MacGowan at the Dublin Christmas Eve Busk
Singer-songwriter said it was an ‘honour and a blessing’ to perform at the now-traditional free Busk, which has become one of Dublin Simon Community’s busiest fundraisers
Shane MacGowan bows out as thousands line streets on a rainy day in Nenagh
Town turns out to welcome singer home for the last time as wife Victoria Mary Clarke delivers eulogy
Glen Hansard on fatherhood at 52: ‘I can’t believe I didn’t do it before now’
The past year has been all change for the singer, who releases his new solo album this week
‘They drop lovely memories into a world filled with destruction and death’: Ukrainian women on the war, leaving home and moving to Ireland
A new project by Fighting Words has helped Ukrainian women in Ireland write their own stories
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
After Glen Hansard reaches in to pull your heart out, Imelda May’s hurricane-force cheer carries the day
Television: Christmas in Ireland with Imelda May and Friends is all sorts of hokey, but what would Christmas be without a sprinkling of schmaltz?
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