Glen Hansard
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316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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It was a bit like in Dublin, if you can imagine, you know, the microcosm of your life, I suppose.
For me, I lived on the north side of the city.
So Grafton Street was on the south side of the city.
And that for me made more sense because it meant that I wouldn't bump into anybody from school.
and that I wouldn't bump into any of my mother's friends, or my mother indeed, because my mother was a fruit seller on Moore Street, which is on the north side of the city, and I wanted to get as far away from anybody I knew as possible.
So I went over to Graffin Street, and also Graffin Street was kind of the more posh part of Dublin, so the chances of me having a career, or getting beyond just being a street musician, I had better chances, if you like, on the south side of the city, because that's kind of where all the artists lived, and...
You know, so I went over there and it was a great, for me, it was the beginning of a whole new education.
I mean, I left school at 13.
I went over there.
The day I left school, I went busking.
And what started was I met a man who sold magazines on the street.
His name was Pete.
And Pete was a, you know, he prided himself on the fact that he was a Dylanologist.
You know, he loved Dylan, loved everything about him.
And because I was such a Dylan fan, this guy took me seriously because I was playing Dylan songs that weren't necessarily the ones from the greatest hits record.
And so this guy took an interest in me and I guess took me under his wing.
And I remember going and living with him for a while.
And he took me around to like poetry readings.
And pretty much from there on, I remember meeting this lady, Philippa Garner, who was kind of a famous painter in Ireland.
And she took me out to her house in Kildare, which was in the countryside.
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