# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paddy-reilly
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:07:06.877Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paddy-reilly"
name: "Paddy Reilly"
slug: "paddy-reilly"
description: "Patrick Reilly is an Irish folk singer and guitarist. Born in Rathcoole, County Dublin, he is one of Ireland's most famous balladeers and is best known for his renditions of \"The Fields of Athenry\", \"Rose of Allendale\" and \"The Town I Loved So Well\". Reilly released his version of \"The Fields of Athenry\" as a single in 1983; it was the most successful version of this song, remaining in the Irish charts for 72 weeks. He achieved number 1 in Ireland with the Liam Reilly written song \"Flight of Earls\" in 1988."
tagline: "Irish singer"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1939-10-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.55
  momentum:             0.3395585738539899
  historical:           12.37628666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "پادى ريلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%A8%EB%94%94_%EB%A0%88%EC%9D%BC%EB%A6%AC"
    title: "패디 레일리"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy_Reilly"
    title: "Paddy Reilly"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/01e3a2a5-75ba-4078-8fa4-0daeeb138543"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q783850"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump