Glen Hansard

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Glen Hansard on fatherhood at 52: ‘I can’t believe I didn’t do it before now’

The past year has been all change for the singer, who releases his new solo album this week

‘They drop lovely memories into a world filled with destruction and death’: Ukrainian women on the war, leaving home and moving to Ireland

A new project by Fighting Words has helped Ukrainian women in Ireland write their own stories

The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end

The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

After Glen Hansard reaches in to pull your heart out, Imelda May’s hurricane-force cheer carries the day

Television: Christmas in Ireland with Imelda May and Friends is all sorts of hokey, but what would Christmas be without a sprinkling of schmaltz?

The Busk: Bono, The Frames, Damien Rice and more sing a song for the homeless

Folk, rock and spoken word collide on this pleasant charity album

Funeral of Pete St John hears he is now part of what was Dublin in the rare ould times

Songwriter of The Fields of Athenry wrote standards that will endure forever

Christmas Eve busk with Bono and Glen Hansard to be livestreamed

Annual session at 9pm from St Patrick’s Cathedral in aid of Simon Community

Jack O’Rourke: Wild Place review – Chamber-pop class through and through

Forget about comparisons to Glen Hansard and other guitar-swinging troubadours

Profit at Glen Hansard’s firm falls 70% due to Covid impact

Musician’s company was sitting on accumulated profit of €1.328m at end of November

Emer Feely’s death leaves ‘legacy and a void’, Tony Holohan tells funeral

Chief medical officer says his wife was ‘loving, caring, warm, witty and sunny person’

Late Late Show busking special: Bono and the Edge top the bill, but they’re not the stars

Glen Hansard’s duet with Philip Powell, who was homeless for 20 years, gives us all Faith

Busking left ‘decimated’: The Christmas the music died due to Covid

Buskers not permitted to perform on Dublin’s streets due to public health guidelines

Alan Parker helped kickstart a cultural renaissance in Dublin

The director, who has died aged 76, created a diverse range of hits during his career

Music streaming turns up volume of pretax profit for Warner Music

Irish business of studio giant amplified by annual revenue rise of 7%

Digging Deep in Dublin – Frank McNally on a dingy alley’s exotic origins and the strange story of an artist who mailed himself

Glen Hansard firm’s accumulated profits hit €1.3m

Plateau Records cash reserves rise to €896,685 as singer shares pay of €261,000

The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Remembering The Diceman: gay icon, national treasure and obstacle on the way to work

Thom McGinty was one in a long line of legendary Dublin street characters, like Zozimus and Bang Bang

In a Word . . . Forecast

Litany of names in shipping forecast soothes some but can irritate others

Gig of the Week: Dermot Kennedy in Dublin

Dublin singer has taken the long road to becoming a world-famous performer

Testing times for Irish art in London as RTÉ auctions le Brocquys

Broadcaster’s tapestries, paintings among pieces in Sotheby’s auction of Irish works

Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’

The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino

Bob Dylan smiles on Kilkenny, but the night belongs to Neil Young

Review: The grizzled pair deliver a jaunty Johnny Cash duet in baking-hot Nowlan Park

I can go for that . . . This week’s best rock and pop gigs

Hall & Oates rock Cork, plus Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and Neil Young

What are the best Irish albums of the year (so far)?

We take stock of the Irish albums released this year. Cue arguments, celebrations . . .

Paul Muldoon: On My Culture Radar

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on his love of Derry Girls, Glen Hansard’s new album and Etto

Why does Irish music on the radio seem to begin and end with Hozier?

PlayIrish, a new digital radio station, aims to get small Irish acts the recognition they deserve

Glen Hansard: This Wild Willing review – Expressive, risky, resolute and often achingly beautiful

Anyone hoping for a rehashed 2019 version of Falling Slowly will be profoundly disappointed

Games, craft beer and food trucks: How the Irish pub is changing

As lifestyle choices shift, pubs are having to offer a lot more than just a good pint

The week’s best rock gigs: From The Specials to Glen Hansard

The Specials are rocking recently released album Encore; Hansard gets experimental

Other Voices: Line-up revealed of every show in 17th series

Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event

The story behind Dublin’s two new Luke Kelly sculptures

The works are unveiled on Wednesday, on north and south sides of the river Liffey

Take me to Hozier: it’s the full Irish for this week’s best rock and pop gigs

Also: The Academic, Blades, Glen Hansard, Síomha, Ash, Fontaines DC and I Draw Slow

Turning Apollo House into ‘cash cow’ is upsetting – trade union official

Brendan Ogle says there has been no ideological rethink in order to solve homeless crisis

The Camino Voyage: Glen Hansard and crew row, row, row their boat

Review: This documentary follows an unlikely journey across treacherous seas

Six of the best films to see at the cinema this weekend

New this week: Assassination Nation, Shoplifters, The Girl in the Spider’s Web and The Camino Voyage

Glen Hansard: ‘I have regrets about Apollo House’

The Frames frontman is in danger of becoming an elder statesman

New artist of the week: Rosalía

Young Catalan merges flamenco and R&B to become one of the planet’s most vital pop stars

Strictly Hedonistic – the heyday of Ireland’s clubland

In 1990s and 2000s, Irish club night scene collided with both acid house and Celtic Tiger

PiL, thrills and Picnic treats: this week’s best rock and pop gigs

Public Image Ltd, Thunderpussy, Five Grand Stereo, Shannon & the Clams, Other Voices

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