# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mairtin-o-connor
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:56:37.611Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mairtin-o-connor"
name: "Máirtín O'Connor"
slug: "mairtin-o-connor"
description: "Máirtín O'Connor is an Irish button accordionist from Galway, Ireland, who began playing at the age of nine, and whose career has seen him as a member of many traditional music groups that include Skylark, Midnight Well, De Dannan, and The Boys of the Lough. A traditional Irish musician, O'Connor was one of the major forces of the music in Riverdance."
tagline: "Irish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor_Bristol_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.72
  momentum:             3.582089552238807
  historical:           6.611916
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2272259/"
    handle:    "nm2272259"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://mairtinoconnor.ie/"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/507125"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1irt%C3%ADn_O'Connor"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/10b88397-0b03-458f-8ee3-aef824b7de0f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2516459"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2027763"
    title: "Máirtín O'Connor"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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