Thousands of mourners gathered in Dublin on Monday, 3 August 2026, to pay their respects to Glen Hansard, the Irish singer-songwriter who died on 29 July at the age of 56 in a motorcycle crash.

Hansard's body lay in repose in a wicker coffin at the Baroque Chapel of the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Kilmainham, where the public wake ran from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. RTÉ estimated the crowd numbered in the thousands, with hundreds filing past over the course of the day (Rolling Stone).

His funeral is set for 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 4 August, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. The service is open to the public, though access inside the cathedral will be extremely limited due to the expected numbers. A public address system will be placed outside the cathedral for those who cannot enter, and the funeral will be broadcast live on RTÉ News and RIP.ie. Hansard's family said the music at the service would be provided by his friends and family.

In lieu of flowers, the family asked mourners to donate to Dublin's Simon Community, a charity supporting homeless people, and to Ukrainian Action.

The details of the wake and funeral were announced by Hansard's family in a statement posted to his official Facebook and Instagram accounts, issued through his management and PR agency, ATC (RTÉ; Consequence).

Born in Dublin on 21 April 1970, Hansard began his career as a busker on the city's streets. He fronted the rock band the Frames and, with Czech pianist and singer Markéta Irglová, formed the duo Swell Season. The two starred together in the 2007 film Once, a low-budget Dublin romance that became an international success. "Falling Slowly," the song Hansard and Irglová wrote and performed for the film, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

In the days following his death, musicians gathered outside Dublin's Gaiety Theatre to pay a musical tribute to Hansard, playing his songs on the street where he got his start.

For a city that watched him go from busker to Oscar winner, the send-off carries its own symmetry: a public wake in a museum chapel, a funeral broadcast to those standing outside the doors, and the request that donations go to the homeless and the displaced — causes Hansard supported in life.