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Áine Furey

film actress/singer from Ireland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ2528271 ↗
Source-derived summary

Áine Furey is an Irish singer. She is the daughter of the uileann piper Finbar Furey and the sister of Martin Furey. She and Martin founded a band called Bohinta in 1992. They had a top-ten hit in France, from the album Excalibur, featuring Jean Reno as Merlin. Bohinta released two albums, Sessions and Belladonna. Furey has dueted with Martin and has accompanied others on various releases. She is a graduate of University College Cork.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Áine Furey” as film actress/singer from Ireland. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Áine, Furey and film can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as film actress/singer from Ireland. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 31, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2528271. The first chronological checks are 1992.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Áine Furey”?
  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Áine Furey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.