Glen Hansard: Remembering Ireland's ‘unofficial national bard’ with Patrick Freyne
Glen Hansard died in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a motorcycle crash in the Strawberry Beds area of Dublin. He was 56. He was one of Ireland’s most well-known musicians who leaves behind an incredible musical legacy from a career that took him from being a teenage busker on Grafton Street to winning an Oscar for the song Falling Slowly. A lifelong activist, he was also a husband to Finnish poet Maire Saaritsa and a father to three-year-old Christy.
Irish Times writer Patrick Freyne once played in a band and they supported Hansard’s first band The Frames in the early 1990s.
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