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Glen Hansard and Lisa O'Neill perform “Fairytale of New York” at the close of the funeral of Shane MacGowan, the 8th of December 2023.

I can’t remember who said it in the press over here, but it was along the lines of “I can’t remember ever being at a funeral before where people danced in the aisles.” …You’ll see it in about the last minute of the video.

The thing is it’s deeply traditional for Irish death-rites to be festive. Normally it’s the wake, but there are any number of extremely raucous traditional Irish tunes about the shenanigans that would happen at a wake. My dad had, long ago, asked for a wake like that, a big party with singing and dancing, and we couldn’t because of Covid, we sat on Zoom and said heartfelt things and drank whiskey instead, quietly on our separate couches, such is the modern age. But that’s the tradition– you dance, and you celebrate the deceased, you celebrate the things and people they enjoyed. (Traditionally part of the role of a wake is to make sure the dead person is really dead, and the most famous traditional song, Finnegan’s Wake, features a corpse that revives at the wake.)

Anyway this is perfectly traditional, though you don’t usually do the dancing bit at the church funeral, but you know how it is, in these modern times things are a bit muddled. It’s certainly faithful to the spirit of the thing. (Your picture was not posted)