Oscar-winning Irish musician Glen Hansard is dead after a pre-dawn motorbike crash on the western edge of Dublin, the capital of Ireland. Hansard, 56, shared the 2008 Academy Award for Best Original Song with Markéta Irglová for “Falling Slowly,” the duet at the heart of the shoestring Dublin romance Once. Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard once dated but separated in 2009. Glen Hansard with Oprah Winfrey and director Peter Hedges in 2012. Theo Wargo/Theo Wargo/Getty Images“It’s with the heaviest of hearts I post a few words about Glen Hansard who has died.