A public wake is being held in Dublin for the Irish singer and songwriter Glen Hansard ahead of his funeral tomorrow.

The Oscar winning musician died in a single vehicle motorbike crash last week.

The wake is taking place in the Baroque Chapel at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Kilmainham, Dublin.

A queue of hundreds of people who came to pay their respects snaked around the venue on Monday morning with thousands expected over the course of the day.

The queue moved quickly but people continued to arrive at IMMA all morning.

“I’ve been to loads of his concerts and his music was fantastic. His outlook on life was brilliant.

“We felt we had to be here,” said Ronan Buckley, who was joined by his wife Rebecca and their two children, Leah and Lily.

“We have the kids here today and they’re also fans through us.

“It’s just a massive loss to Ireland,” said Rebecca.

Danni Rohde is a big fan of Hansard’s band, The Frames, and has been to about 50 of their concerts, including one of his final performances on 3 July in Trinity College Dublin.

“It’s just such a big part of my late teens, early 20s,” she told BBC News NI.

“That whole part of my life is just tied to Frames gigs, when they were playing more or less every weekend.

“It doesn’t really feel real.”

Her mother Miriam Rohde Joyce said they wanted to come to pay their respects.

Chris James said he saw Hansard busking for the first time 25 years ago in Dublin’s Grafton Street.

He was near the top of the queue and said he had been waiting about half an hour.

“I thought it one of the most coolest things I’d ever seen and one of the reasons I picked up and started playing guitar. I met him a couple of times.

“Just a lovely fellow, totally unassuming, wanted the best for everybody, knew that there was an awful lot of hardship around and instead of giving out about it, he just wanted to bring people together.”

Hansard’s funeral is due to take place in St Patrick’s Cathedral on Tuesday in central Dublin at 13:30 local time.

The news of his sudden death shocked the music world and fans alike, with tributes being paid from the likes of Ed Sheeran and Bruce Springsteen, who said he was “heartbroken”.

Hansard had a storied career in music across more than three decades, including winning the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2008 with Marketa Irglova, which featured in the low-budget musical romance film Once.

He and Irglova released three albums as The Swell Season, while Hansard also encountered success as a solo artist with 2016 album Didn’t He Ramble being nominated for a Grammy in 2016.