# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barney-mckenna
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:41:25.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barney-mckenna"
name: "Barney McKenna"
slug: "barney-mckenna"
description: "Bernard Noël McKenna, known as Barney McKenna or Banjo Barney, was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He is regarded as a major figure in the development of the tenor banjo in Irish traditional music, and is widely credited with establishing GDAE tuning as the instrument's standard tuning in the tradition."
tagline: "Irish musician (1939-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Barney_001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
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profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-12-16"
deathDate: "2012-04-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump