{"id":583253,"date":"2026-08-04T20:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583253\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:42:10","slug":"funeral-details-announced-for-oscar-winning-actress-brenda-fricker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583253\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral details announced for Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE FUNERAL OF Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker will take place in Dublin later this week, following her death last month at the age of 81.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Fricker died peacefully on 16 July in the care of staff at Our Lady\u2019s Hospice in Harold\u2019s Cross.<\/p>\n

Her funeral service will take place at St Catherine\u2019s Church on Meath Street in The Liberties at 11am on Thursday, followed by a private burial, according to details shared by her family today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The funeral will be livestreamed online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fricker was one of Ireland\u2019s most celebrated actors, and made history to become the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award.<\/p>\n

She took home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1990 for her performance alongside Daniel Day-Lewis in My Left Foot.<\/p>\n

Across a career spanning decades, she starred in films including The Field, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Veronica Guerin, Angels in the Outfield, So I Married an Axe Murderer and A Time to Kill.<\/p>\n

Last year, Fricker published her memoir, She Died Young: A Life in Fragments, in which she reflected candidly on a childhood marked by abuse, later experiences of sexual violence, her struggles with depression, and the role acting played in helping her survive those experiences.<\/p>\n

In February, Fricker was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin, which her agent Phil Belfield said she \u201cwas particularly thrilled and proud of\u201d.<\/p>\n

She previously said that work gave her a sense of safety and purpose<\/a>, from her early days on the Abbey Theatre stage to an international career that took her from Tolka Row to Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE FUNERAL OF Oscar-winning Irish actress Brenda Fricker will take place in Dublin later this week, following her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53638,15025,24843,164205,615,93,4019,61,60,4356,192060],"class_list":["post-583253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actor","tag-actress","tag-brenda-fricker","tag-death-notice","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-funeral","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-rip","tag-the-liberties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583253","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=583253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}