{"id":578948,"date":"2026-08-01T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578948\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T14:21:08","slug":"what-are-the-memorial-and-funeral-plans-for-glen-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/578948\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the memorial and funeral plans for Glen Hansard?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oscar-winning musician and actor Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle crash in Dublin earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The much-loved musician’s passing has sparked an outpouring of tributes from fans, friends and celebrities.<\/p>\n

The likes of former US president Barack Obama<\/a>, musician Bruce Springsteen, Oscar-winning co-star Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 and President Catherine Connolly have all paid tribute to Hansard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hansard’s family has announced details for his memorial and funeral. The funeral will be open to the public, however, access to St Patrick’s Cathedral will be limited.<\/p>\n

Royal Hospital Kilmainham will be the venue for a public memorial on Monday, August 3rd, between 11am and 4pm.<\/p>\n

In a statement, his family said: “A public wake will take place in the Baroque Chapel at IMMA, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin 8 on Monday 3rd August between 11am and 4pm. Glen will lie in repose for those wishing to pay their respects,\u201d Hansard\u2019s family wrote. \u201cGlen\u2019s funeral will take place at St. Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, St. Patrick\u2019s Close, Dublin 8 on Tuesday 4th August at 1:30pm. The funeral will be open to the public, however access inside the Cathedral will be extremely limited given the numbers expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family added: \u201cMusic at the funeral will be provided by Glen\u2019s friends and family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The funeral will also be broadcast live on RT\u00c9 News and Rip.ie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar-winning musician and actor Glen Hansard died in a motorcycle crash in Dublin earlier this week. The much-loved…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-578948","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\/578948","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=578948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}