{"id":717230,"date":"2026-07-29T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:24:08","slug":"glen-hansard-oscar-winning-songwriter-killed-in-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/717230\/","title":{"rendered":"Glen Hansard: Oscar-winning songwriter killed in crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a statement, ATC Management, which represented Hansard, said:  &#8220;With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen Hansard who passed away, in the early hours of this morning, following a road traffic accident in Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Glen&#8217;s family is deeply shocked and heartbroken by this tragic loss and respectfully requests privacy at this extremely difficult time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The family is grateful for the support they have received and wishes to thank the emergency services who attended the scene.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hansard starred opposite Czech musician Mark\u00e9ta Irglov\u00e1 in 2007&#8217;s Once.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair played two musicians who meet in Dublin and form a creative partnership, performing songs they write together as The Swell Season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The film won the World Cinema Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A Broadway adaptation of the film, featuring Hansard and Irglov\u00e1&#8217;s songs,  later won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a statement, ATC Management, which represented Hansard, said: &#8220;With broken hearts we announce the passing of Glen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-717230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}