The daddy of Kneecap’s Móglái Bap has handed away simply forward of the band’s largest ever headline present in Belfast, with the band vowing to play the gig “for him”.
As confirmed by a publish on the hip-hop trio’s social media, Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, 67, died on Friday (December 20), with the band writing: “He was an Irish language revolutionary, neighborhood activist, loving father, husband and an inspiration to many. We’re heartbroken.”
Kneecap play a headline present at Belfast’s SSE Area tonight (December 21), which has been described as the biggest Irish language gig within the metropolis’s historical past. “Nothing would have made him prouder,” Kneecap added. “Tonight is for him.”
Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, father of Móglái Bap handed away final evening.
He was an Irish language revolutionary, neighborhood activist, loving father, husband and an inspiration to many.
We’re heartbroken. 💔
Tonight’s live performance on the SSE enviornment would be the largest Irish language… pic.twitter.com/AAm5rkoI6i
— KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) December 21, 2024
“Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam,” they concluded, a conventional Irish blessing which interprets as, “Could his soul be on the proper hand of God”.
The Irish Information report that Ó Cairealláin handed away in Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital following a brief sickness. He suffered a stroke practically twenty years in the past that left him paralysed from the waist down.
Earlier this yr, the movie Kneecap chronicled the group’s unconventional rise to fame and revolved round Michael Fassbender’s Arlo Ó Cairealláin, a tireless champion of Irish language and tradition that was, within the story of the movie, the daddy of Naoise ‘Móglái Bap’ Ó Cairealláin, though he was not a direct illustration of Gearóid Ó Cairealláin.
Kneecap was not too long ago named by NME as the very best movie of 2024, who famous: “Impressed by the three’s experiences rising up in post-Troubles Belfast – in addition to their wit and limitless creativeness – this darkish comedy cum docudrama cum fictionalised origin story follows low degree drug sellers Móglaí and Mo as they bumble by life getting crushed up by Republicans and Loyalists alike. Finally, by way of a drug-induced inventive bender, they uncover a love for making music and kind Kneecap with a neighborhood schoolteacher. Cue the funniest and most enjoyable band biopic since, properly, ever.”
The movie has now been shortlisted for 2 Oscars – Greatest Worldwide Function and Greatest Authentic Music – with the ultimate listing of nominees set to be confirmed on January 17.
Earlier this month Kneecap took dwelling seven wins on the British Unbiased Movie Awards (BIFA), together with a joint lead accolade for its stars.
The band launched their debut album ‘Nice Artwork’ this yr, which was additionally named as one of many albums of the yr by NME. “Cheeky, intelligent, countercultural: that is the whole lot you need in a debut album,” NME wrote. “The Belfast trio get gacked with glee on ‘Nice Artwork’, unleashing a brand-new vocabulary of Irish phrases for his or her hijinks together with a number of the deadliest competition tunes of 2024. To disgruntled mother and father, we are saying: Tá fáilte romhat!
The group have been additionally one in every of NME’s cowl stars earlier this yr. Talking within the interview, the band mirrored on how that they had helped to boost practically £100,000 for a volunteer fitness center within the Aida Refugee Camp in Palestine, broadcast their message throughout high-profile TV appearances, and joined the boycott of SXSW this yr attributable to it being sponsored by The Military.
