{"id":582801,"date":"2026-08-04T10:02:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582801\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:02:18","slug":"funeral-to-take-place-for-trailblazer-glen-hansard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/582801\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral to take place for \u2018trailblazer\u2019 Glen Hansard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A funeral is set to take place in Dublin later for \u201ctrailblazer\u201d Glen Hansard.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after thousands of mourners attended a public wake for the musician at the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The frontman of Irish band The Frames was killed at the age of 56 in a motorcycle crash on the outskirts of Dublin last week, hours after taking part in a trad session at The Wren\u2019s Nest pub.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/funeral-to-take-place-for-trailblazer-glen-hansard.jpg\" alt=\"People signing condolence books\" data-title=\"Glen Hansard death\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Damien Eagers\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>People sign condolence books at a public wake for Glen Hansard at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (Damien Eagers\/PA)<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/ed-sheeran-backed-cross-border-music-project-takes-centre-stage-at-fleadh-1935616.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/ed-sheeran-backed-cross-border-music-project-takes-centre-stage-at-fleadh-1935616.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2-85481044.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"Ed Sheeran-Backed Cross-Border Music Project Takes Centre Stage At Fleadh\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>Ed Sheeran-backed cross-border music project takes centre stage at Fleadh<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had featured in celebrated film The Commitments, and won an Oscar for best original song for Falling Slowly in 2008, which he co-wrote with Marketa Irglova for the movie Once.<\/p>\n<p>He began an annual Christmas Eve charity busk outside the Gaiety Theatre 16 years ago, drawing members of the public to see famous Irish musicians perform in aid of the homeless in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The funeral service will take place at St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral at 1.30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral is set to take place in Dublin later for \u201ctrailblazer\u201d Glen Hansard. It comes after thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-582801","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\/582801","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=582801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}