{"id":580687,"date":"2026-08-02T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T19:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T19:23:09","slug":"screening-of-film-once-to-be-held-in-dublin-to-honour-glen-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/580687\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening of film Once to be held in Dublin to honour Glen Hansard"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE FILM ONCE will be shown in a charity screening in Dublin<\/a> to pay tribute to the late Glen Hansard.<\/p>\n

Rascal\u2019s Brewing Company will hold the screening on Thursday evening, followed by a 20-minute film directed by\u00a0Myles O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n

The concert film will feature Hansard and his band performing Love Don\u2019t Leave Me Waiting, This Gift and The Auld Triangle in Dublin\u2019s Iveagh Gardens on 21 July 2013.<\/p>\n

Once was released in 2007, and\u00a0stars Glen Hansard and Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1.<\/p>\n

Directed by John Carney, the film earned them the Academy Award for Best Original Song for \u2018Falling Slowly.\u2019<\/p>\n

Hansard and his group The Frames were a key part of the Irish music scene<\/a> throughout the 1990s and 2000s.<\/p>\n

They performed widely across the country, making regular appearances at major music festivals like Oxegen and Electric Picnic.<\/p>\n

Alongside his musical career, Hansard was a prominent homelessness activist and charity fundraiser.<\/p>\n

He led a Christmas Eve busk to raise money for the Simon Community, which became a staple of the season in Dublin, with the likes of Bono and Imelda May becoming frequent guest stars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old died following a single-vehicle motorcycle collision<\/a> near the Strawberry Beds in Lucan, Dublin, on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

Tributes immediately began to pour out for the musician<\/a>, which have been paid across the globe from the likes of Barack Obama to Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n

A public wake will be held on Monday <\/a>at the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, with his funeral held the following day at Dublin\u2019s St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral.<\/p>\n

His family has asked that instead of flowers or gifts, anyone wishing to pay tribute is invited to make a donation to the Simon Community or Ukrainian Action.<\/p>\n

Entrance to Thursday\u2019s screening of Once<\/a> is \u20ac5, and all proceeds will go to the Dublin Simon Community.<\/p>\n

Doors open at 6.30pm with the screening starting at 7.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE FILM ONCE will be shown in a charity screening in Dublin to pay tribute to the late…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,245045,615,93,1043,109247,61,60,97146,245046,18705],"class_list":["post-580687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-charity-screening","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-glen-hansard","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-once","tag-rascals-brewing-company","tag-tribute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580687","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=580687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}