{"id":574332,"date":"2026-07-29T20:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:25:09","slug":"glen-hansard-fans-make-way-to-grafton-street-in-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/574332\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard fans make way to Grafton Street in tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

A single white rose sat on Grafton Street, just by a small archway beside the Disney shop.<\/p>\n

It was laid by Bruno Vogl, a German man who arrived in Dublin with his father this morning.<\/p>\n

Mr Vogl loves the film Once, and he and his father had planned to visit locations that featured in it.<\/p>\n

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\nGlen Hansard fan Bruno Vogl lays a white rose for Glen Hansard<\/p>\n

He said this particular spot on Grafton Street was on his list because it was where the movie opens – with Glen Hansard singing ‘And the Healing Has Begun’.<\/p>\n

“I watched the movie in preparation with my Dad for the trip,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Glen meant a lot to me, I saw him in my hometown in Dresden in Germany in 2016, and when I was younger, about 15 years old, I watched Once and that movie really inspired me to pick up busking myself.<\/p>\n

“It’s such a weird feeling, being in Dublin for the second time, and on my first day [of this trip] I get the news and I just felt that I had to come here and pay my respects,” he said.<\/p>\n

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\nBruno Vogl a German man who arrived in Dublin this morning to visit Once filming locations<\/p>\n

Andrew Glover and Andrew Kavanagh of the band Keywest have spent many years playing on Dublin’s streets.<\/p>\n

Mr Glover said the entire community is “tore up” at the news.<\/p>\n

“He started as a street performer, and he made it all the way to the top. But he never forgot his roots and that’s something we can all aspire to. He was such a role model to every musician, especially in Ireland and especially in Dublin.<\/p>\n

“I think of the Christmas busk that he was such a big part of, and how they went from strength to strength under his guidance, it’s going to have a different feel this year for sure,” he said.<\/p>\n

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\nAndrew Glover of Keywest said the entire music community is ‘tore up’ at the news<\/p>\n

Mr Kavanagh said: “I’m always going to think of him as a street performer and what he did for Grafton St in terms of world-scale with his songs and with the movie Once.<\/p>\n

“He’s such a raw Dublin lad, and he’s from our neck of the woods as well, so I’ll always think of him as that really down-to-earth Dublin lad with buckets of talent.<\/p>\n

“I’m thinking a lot of the buskers that know him really well, there’s a couple in particular I know who will be very upset and I haven’t seen them yet but they’ll definitely be inconsolable with this as they work with Glen regularly.<\/p>\n

“I’m thinking of his wife and young son too, such a young family.”<\/p>\n

Over by the International Bar, Brian Walton described the news as an “absolute tragedy” adding that Mr Hansard was a “fantastic musician and a beautiful man”.<\/p>\n

“He’ll be sorely missed and remembered forever,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Book of condolence for Glen Hansard to open in Dublin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A single white rose sat on Grafton Street, just by a small archway beside the Disney shop. It…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-574332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}