Glen Hansard of the Frames spotted on Grafton street by Dorset College Students

Dublin City's inner streets, squares and arches are well known and visited by local, national and international buskers. Musicians rich and poor, talented and humorously talentless ,unknown, farily known or infamous often choose Grafton street to traditionally set down their caps awaiting appreciation of song through pennies from passers by.

A group of Dorset College students were pleasantly surprised some weeks ago to spot Glen Hansard, lead singer of the frames, actor and Academy-Award Winner for best original song "Falling-Slowly" from the film "Once" in which he co-acted alongside Market Irglova. Glen Hansard has enjoyed worldwide success as a critically acclaimed artist and the students were all but star-struck to find him back on his local streets busking as he used to do in the early 1990s before he was discovered or indeed before he discovered himself.

The students knew well of this red haired and freckled friendly Irish giant and were proud to see the star who they knew had shot many a movie scene and sang many a song in a lovely Georgian house on the same square as the school is located; Mountjoy Square.

Mountjoy Square can boast of being Dublin's only true Georgian square, each of its sides being exactly 140 metres in length and has had many other famous inhabitants throughout its history. The earliest perhaps, Arthur Guinness of the renowned Irish brew, James Joyce Ireland's literary genius and Padraig o'Faolain Irish Painter extraordinaire.

We would like to thank the students for giving us their photos of which I will later upload to this page.