{"id":583486,"date":"2026-08-05T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583486\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T01:42:12","slug":"funeral-arrangements-for-brenda-fricker-announced-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/583486\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral arrangements for Brenda Fricker announced \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A funeral service for actor Brenda Fricker<\/a> will take place at St Catherine\u2019s Church in Meath Street in Dublin on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The 81-year-old died on July 16th<\/a> at Our Lady\u2019s Hospice in Harold\u2019s Cross in Dublin. Fricker, who was late of the Liberties and Dundrum, was predeceased by her mother Bina, father Desmond and sister Grainne. <\/p>\n

A funeral notice on rip.ie reads that Fricker is \u201cdeeply regretted and lovingly remembered\u201d by her niece Billie, nephew Chimo, grandnieces and grandnephews, her best friend Liz, neighbours and a wide circle of friends around the world and in Ireland. <\/p>\n

A private burial will follow the 11am service on Thursday. The funeral service will be live-streamed at churchservices.tv<\/a>.<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Brenda Fricker: \u2018It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me\u2019Opens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

Brenda Fricker was the first Irish woman to win an acting Oscar when in 1990 she took the award for best actress for My Left Foot.<\/p>\n

She had a career which spanned six decades across stage and screen. She appeared in both film and television productions. <\/p>\n

A Book of Condolences was opened in Dublin following her death.<\/p>\n

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Cllr Daryl Bannon described Fricker as \u201cone of the greatest actors in Irish history and a cherished Freeman of the City of Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A funeral service for actor Brenda Fricker will take place at St Catherine\u2019s Church in Meath Street in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24843,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-583486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-brenda-fricker","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583486","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=583486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}