# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peadar-kearney
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:58.318Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peadar-kearney"
name: "Peadar Kearney"
slug: "peadar-kearney"
description: "Peadar Kearney was an Irish republican and composer of numerous rebel songs. In 1907, he wrote the lyrics to \"A Soldier's Song\", now the Irish national anthem. He was the uncle of Irish writers Brendan Behan, Brian Behan, and Dominic Behan."
tagline: "Irish song writer (1883–1942)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peadar_Kearney%2C_1912_(retouched).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1883-12-12"
deathDate: "1942-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.28
  momentum:             4.150943396226414
  historical:           8.829736
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/1029287"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_%C3%93_Cearnaigh"
    title: "Peadar Ó Cearnaigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_%C3%93_Cearnaigh"
    title: "Peadar Ó Cearnaigh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peadar_Kearney"
    title: "Peadar Kearney"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/202c867e-bfc5-466b-a803-fc1b3a67d891"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1292737"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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