# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donal-lunny
# Generated: 2026-09-01T13:04:37.443Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donal-lunny"
name: "Dónal Lunny"
slug: "donal-lunny"
description: "Dónal Lunny is an Irish folk musician and producer. He plays guitar and bouzouki, as well as keyboards and bodhrán. As a founding member of popular bands Planxty, The Bothy Band, Moving Hearts, Coolfin, Mozaik, LAPD, and Usher's Island, he has been at the forefront of the renaissance of Irish traditional music for over five decades. In 2025 he was the recipient of the RTÉ Radio 1 Folk Awards Lifetime Achievement Award."
tagline: "Irish musician and record producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Donal-lunny-the-basement-sydney-australia-24-03-06.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1947-03-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           63.12
  momentum:             3.44037736580305
  historical:           13.590584
  currentAttention:     4.777070063694266
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 730
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526779/"
    handle:    "nm0526779"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/0woo27tBjj7xCWTRTKOPCh"
    handle:    "0woo27tBjj7xCWTRTKOPCh"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ_hMvnqQfYX0Tzfbmh8mfQ"
    handle:    "Dónal Lunny - Topic"
    followers: 730
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Lunny"
    title: "Donal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%84_%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89"
    title: "دونال لونى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal_Lunny"
    title: "Donal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ドーナル・ラニー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3nal_Lunny"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9296618d-e67c-4cff-bcc9-82d3503a8e1b"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983618"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1989717"
    title: "Dónal Lunny"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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