{"id":575958,"date":"2026-07-30T19:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575958\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T19:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T19:18:08","slug":"watch-buskers-play-falling-slowly-in-memory-of-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575958\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Buskers play Falling Slowly in memory of Hansard"},"content":{"rendered":"

A memorial busk has taken place in Dublin city centre to pay tribute to Glen Hansard.<\/p>\n

Musicians assembled at the statue of folk singer Luke Kelly near Grafton Street to sing songs made famous by Glen Hansard, including the Oscar-winning song Falling Slowly.<\/p>\n

The event took place close to the Gaiety Theatre – the location where Glen Hansard would hold his traditional Christmas Eve charity busk.<\/p>\n

A crowd gathered to watch the tribute event, which was held a day after the singer-songwriter was killed in a motorcycle crash in the Strawberry Beds area of Dublin yesterday.<\/p>\n

Jamie Harrington, from the same Ballymun suburb where Mr Hansard grew up, organised the memorial busk.<\/p>\n

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\nGlen Hansard held his annual Christmas Eve charity busk at the same location where the memorial busk took place today<\/p>\n

He said one of the musicians participating was playing a guitar that Mr Hansard had given him because he did not have one of his own.<\/p>\n

“I organised this today because I wanted to give people who are also fans of Glen a chance to gather and be together with other people who are also sad,” Mr Harrington said.<\/p>\n

“You know, it’s a really, really sad time. Glen was a legend to many of us. He was a friend to me, and I was very lucky to have Glen as a friend and as someone I could rely on and depend on when things needed to be done.<\/p>\n

“And, you know, from talking to people here today, Glen has touched so many people\u2019s lives by never even meeting them. His music resonates with people all over the world.<\/p>\n

“But he\u2019s just a kid from Ballymun at the end of the day – Ballymun to the world.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A memorial busk has taken place in Dublin city centre to pay tribute to Glen Hansard. Musicians assembled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-575958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575958","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=575958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}