# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/andy-irvine
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:35:44.741Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/andy-irvine"
name: "Andy Irvine"
slug: "andy-irvine"
description: "Andrew Kennedy Irvine is an Irish folk musician, singer-songwriter, and a founding member of Sweeney's Men, Planxty, Patrick Street, Mozaik, LAPD and Usher's Island. He also featured in duos, with Dónal Lunny, Paul Brady, Mick Hanly, Dick Gaughan, Rens van der Zalm, and Luke Plumb. Irvine plays the mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, harmonica, and hurdy-gurdy."
tagline: "Irish folk musician and singer-songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_Street_Andy_Irvine_smile.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1942-06-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.54
  momentum:             0.3488372093023256
  historical:           10.35216666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.andyirvine.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/671422"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "أندي إيرفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%81%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "اندى ايرفين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%DB%8C_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "اندی ایرفین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine"
    title: "Andy Irvine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine_(musician)"
    title: "Andy Irvine (musician)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine_(m%C3%BAsico)"
    title: "Andy Irvine (músico)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine_(musicien)"
    title: "Andy Irvine (musicien)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine_(musicista)"
    title: "Andy Irvine (musicista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Irvine_(muzikant)"
    title: "Andy Irvine (muzikant)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%AE%89%E8%BF%AA%C2%B7%E6%AD%90%E6%96%87"
    title: "安迪·歐文"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e29b5246-94f8-43ba-8384-2af3467c421e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73132"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump