{"id":559071,"date":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559071\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:12:09","slug":"glen-hansard-funeral-bono-leads-tributes-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/559071\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard funeral: Bono leads tributes in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Song of Good Hope by Glen Hansard, performed at his funeral today by Eddie Vedder, Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1, members of The Frames and others. Beautiful stuff\ud83d\udda4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xKElDIyU7a\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xKElDIyU7a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Willoughby (@Ian_Willoughby) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ian_Willoughby\/status\/2084633622036861323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">With Hansard as lead singer, guitarist and composer, The Frames became one of the most popular bands on Ireland\u2019s music scene and he won international acclaim during three decades working in film, music and cinema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">At the funeral in Dublin\u2019s St Patrick\u2019s Cathedral, aired live on Irish television, Bono sang lyrics from U2 track Beautiful Day and encouraged mourners to join in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">He also played a voice mail message from US punk rock veteran Patti Smith where she sang a lullaby for Hansard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Those unable to fit inside the cathedral sat on the grass outside to watch the service on large screens while more than 40,000 watched a live-stream.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Glen Hansard&#8217;s coffin being carried out of the cathedral to a mass singalong of Forever Young at the end of his beautiful funeral today. Impossible to watch this with a dry eye. \ud83d\udda4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZDYCFlvWL6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZDYCFlvWL6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ian Willoughby (@Ian_Willoughby) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ian_Willoughby\/status\/2084649345991770520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m here to pay my respects to Glen, who was a cultural icon for a lot of us,\u201d one young mourner, Conor Behan, told AFP outside the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe came from a very poor background himself, but he never forgot that, and he helped a lot of young musicians realise their dreams,\u201d said another mourner, Siobhan O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">In 2007, Hansard won an Oscar with Czech musician Marketa Irglova for their co-written song Falling Slowly from Irish romantic film Once, directed by John Carney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Set in Dublin, Hansard plays a busker who meets fellow musician Irglova, bonding over their shared love of music.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">At the funeral, Irglova performed Hansard\u2019s The Song of Good Hope with Pearl Jam\u2019s Eddie Vedder and The Frames.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Song of Good Hope by Glen Hansard, performed at his funeral today by Eddie Vedder, Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1, members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[218742,3376,57991,113172,51374,29872,156,593,65792,26524,27509,36568,270128,78,8454,18792,22055,440,133272,65041,111,139,69,57230,48942,2742,2044,10140,14578],"class_list":["post-559071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-218742","tag-actor","tag-bono","tag-commitments","tag-cult","tag-dublin","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-frontman","tag-funeral","tag-gathered","tag-glen","tag-hansard","tag-in","tag-including","tag-irish","tag-leads","tag-local","tag-mourners","tag-musician","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-oscarwinning","tag-starred","tag-thousands","tag-time","tag-tributes","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}