Barney McKenna
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Bernard Noël "Banjo Barney" McKenna was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player.
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Barney McKenna performing with The Dubliners 2010 at a folk festival in Germany
The Dubliners
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The Dubliners were an Irish folk band founded in Dublin in 1962 as The Ronnie Drew Ballad Group, named after its founding member; they subsequently renamed themselves The Dubliners. The line-up saw ma
Barney McKenna
…Bernard Noël "Banjo Barney" McKenna (16 December 1939 – 5 April 2012) was an Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners. He played the tenor banjo, violin, mandolin, and melodeon. He was most renowned as a banjo player. Born in Donnycarney, Dublin, McKenna played the…
Ciarán Bourke, Luke Kelly, John Sheahan, Barney McKenna, Ronnie Drew
O'Donoghue's Pub on Merrion Row, Dublin, where the group played regularly in the early 1960s.
The Dubliners in 2005. L-R: Eamonn Campbell, John Sheahan, Barney McKenna, Seán Cannon, Patsy Watchorn.
A wall in O'Donoghue's dedicated to The Dubliners