# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-mccabe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:51:27.927Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-mccabe"
name: "Patrick McCabe"
slug: "patrick-mccabe"
description: "Patrick McCabe is an Irish writer. Known for his mostly dark and violent novels set in contemporary—often small-town—Ireland, McCabe has been twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for The Butcher Boy (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (1998), both of which have been made into films."
tagline: "Irish writer (born 1955)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955-03-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.8
  momentum:             1.758241758241758
  historical:           16.50968666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0564496/"
    handle:    "nm0564496"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "باتريك مكابي (روائي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%89"
    title: "باتريك مكابى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "پاتریک مک‌کیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe_(novelist)"
    title: "Patrick McCabe (novelist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%BE%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%85%DA%A9%E2%80%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "پاتریک مک‌کیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe_(%C3%A9crivain)"
    title: "Patrick McCabe (écrivain)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe_(scrittore)"
    title: "Patrick McCabe (scrittore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%BA%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%B1%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA_(%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C)"
    title: "Маккейб, Патрик (писатель)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe_(pisac)"
    title: "Patrick McCabe (pisac)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Patrick_McCabe"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c463b2f0-0763-400e-806d-1d166e7eee7c"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944204"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2921566"
    title: "Patrick McCabe"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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