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Musical featuring music and lyrics by Glen Hansard to premiere next year

Marketa Irglová, who co-composed the new musical, said that carrying forward the creative work that she and Hansard began together feels “like both a privilege and a blessing.”

Glen Hansard's final project before his death revealed

Glen Hansard was working on a new project with his former partner and "Once" co-star Markéta Irglová before his death.

‘Once’: a song to a lost humanity

Glen Hansard died this summer, but he remains immortalised in one of most life-giving films I have seen. John Carney’s 2006 feature Once begins with a man busking on Grafton Street...

Markéta Irglová shares heartbreaking tribute to Glen Hansard one month after his tragic death

Irish singer Glen Hansard, who won an Oscar for the Once song Falling Slowly, tragically died in a motorcycle collision in Dublin last month, and his former partner and Once co-sta...

String of AI posts featuring late Glen Hansard cause outrage

Glen Hansard's likeness has been used in a string of bizarre AI ads plaguing Irish social media users' feeds.

Amano brings distinctive blend of Irish song to the Glen's Centre in Co Leitrim

Oscar nominated actor to perform in Wexford with a host of world-renowned musicians

Premiere: MAC GIOLLA GHUNNA - 'GWAN': black and Irish working-class voices in electronic rí-rá agus ruaile buaile

A music video premiere of Otherworld explorations through dance movement.

‘I created Duke Special and wore mascara and dreadlocks because it was overwhelming to walk on stage as Peter’

Musician says he was shocked to lose two friends in Moya Brennan and Glen Hansard this year

Eddie Vedder lets Irish band play his guitar on stage after all their gear was stolen

The Pearl Jam frontman found a new slot on his Ohana Festival lineup for the hotly touted Irish rock band and gave them a guitar for the show

A strange article about Glen Hansard led me to the promise of €500k before it disappeared

Our FactCheck editor details the internet trends seen by a thirtysomething-year-old man.

Johnny Depp guests on new Glenn Richards single

Johnny Depp lends his presence to the latest single by Glenn Richards and the Venus Lakes, out now on Depp’s own IN.2 Records. The track, entitled Cold Hands, Warm Heart, features...

Culture That Made Me: Clonakilty guitarist Bill Shanley picks his touchstones

Memories of Noel Redding in West Cork, and playing with Ray Davies at the London Olympics closing ceremony feature among Shanley's selections 

Ed Sheeran enlists surprise guest Isaac Slade after Macklemore fallout

Best new gigs: ØXN, Gerd Janson, Hunee, Lil Skag, José González, Lael Neale, The Scientist and more

Some recent gig announcements from the Irish live circuit. Glasshouse and tasteinyourmouth present Hysterically Shopping!…to some sort of…

The Nialler9 Dublin Gig Guide: A$AP Rocky, Jack White, Marie Davidson, Sigur Rós, Clash At The Quays!, All The Dead Voic...

U2 celebrate 50th anniversary with concerts in Dublin and their former high school The band also paid tribute to “king b...

See photos, footage and more from what went down as the rock legends returned to their former high school and played a surprise set from the balcony of Bewley’s Cafe on Grafton Str...

New Irish songs you should hear: And He, The Fool; The Wran, Last Apollo, GNS, Shampain, Cruel Sister...

Also featuring Vaticanjail, Sulk Hogan, Mickzart and Kadillac, mischa and the bear, GNS and Credence.

Acclaimed Wicklow poet fronts nature-themed performance of poetry, music and video

U2 has released a single from an upcoming Shane MacGowan tribute album

Shane MacGowan, the lead singer/drinker with The Pogues, was a true poet, someone whose lyrics inspired awe and admiration around the world. This upcoming tribute album shows just...

‘You will be remembered’ – singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe sends message to Irish footballers ahead of Israel fixtures

Rowe was among the Irish acts to quit the North American leg of Ed Sheeran’s ongoing Loop tour

Cork musician Meadhbh Walsh kicks-off her new tour by returning to a very special venue

Na Shan Vans ag iarraidh a bheith ar stáitse le Macklemore

Tá an banna Gaeilge ag úsáid cumhacht na meán sóisialta chun aird Macklemore a fháil chun ardán a roinnt leis ar a chamchuairt

Irish acts exit Ed Sheeran tour as they back Macklemore

Irish acts Aaron Rowe and Beoga and Irish-American solo artist Finneas have announced they are leaving their guest slots on Ed Sheeran's tour in solidarity with the American rapper...