Margaret Barry
About the artist
Margaret Barry (1917-1990) is perhaps the best known and most prominent of the early generation of banjo-wielding "tinkers." Born in Cork into a family of travellers/street singers, she taught herself how to play the zither banjo and the fiddle at an early age. At the age of 16 she left on her own after a family row and started her career as a street singer. In the early 1950s she moved to London and joined forces with fiddler Michael Gorman. The duo soon become an important part of London's Irish exile music community
Top songs
- She Moved Through the Fair
- The Blarney Stone
- She Moves Through the Fair
- The Factory Girl
- Her Mantle so Green
- The Stray-Away Child / The Lark in the Morning
- My Lagan Love
- The Flower of Sweet Strabane
- Guinness Song
- The Bold Fenian Men
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- The Galway Shawl
- The Wild Colonial Boy
- The Bard of Armagh
- She Moved Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)
- The Turfman from Ardee
- Farewell To My Own Native Land
- The Galway Shawl (Oranmore)
- Galway Shawl
- Going to Mass Last Sunday
- Come Back Paddy Reilly
- She Moves Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day)
- Ballyjamesduff
- Gra Machree
- Lovin' Hannah
- If You Ever Go Over to Ireland
- The Cycling Championship Of Ulster
- Reel: Dr. Gilbert
- When You're Fond of Music
- Let Mr. Maguire Sit Down
- I Sang Through the Fairs
- Me Mother Is Dying
- If You Ever Go O'er to Ireland
- Breakdown (Banjo Instrumental)
- She Moved Through the Fair (Long Version)
- The Strayaway Child
- Breakdown
- Dwyer's Hornpipe
- The Hills of Donegal
- Belfast Hornpipe (Banjo Duet)
- Polkas: Maguire's Favourite / Tralee Gaol / Maggie In the Wood
- Our Ship Is Ready
- Moses Ritoora-Li-Ay
- Hornpipe: The Boys of Bluehill
- O Gramachree
- Wild Colonial Boy
- Moses Ritoorel-i-ay
- Reels: The Yellow Tinker / The Corner House
- Kathleen
- Jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork / Fasten the Legging
- She Moved Thru The Fair
- The Half Door
- The Cottage With the Horseshoe O'er the Door
- A Parody / Margaret Unidentified
- Me Mother Is Dying (Interview)
- Eileen McMahon
- Reels: The Bunch of Keys / The Heather Breeze
- Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle
- The Leprechaun
- Eileen McMahon / Green Grow the Rushes
- The Cycling Champions of Ulster
- Boys of the Town
- The Cottages With The Horseshoe
- The Clycling Champion of Ulster
- Leprechaun
- and there's music coming into my head
- The Wild Colonial Boy (Arr. Barry)
- Keening Diddling & Lullabies
- The Factory Girl (Arr. Barry)
- The Turfman from Arlee
- Cottage with the Horseshoe
- The Guinness Song
- The Leprachaun
- Keening, Diddling and Lullabies (interview)
- I Sang Through the Fairs (interview)
- She Moves Through the Fair - Our Wedding Day (Arr. Barry)
- Keening, Diddling and Lullabies
- Eileen Mcmahon Green Grow the Rushes
- Barney Brannigan
- Down by the Sea
- Let Mr Maguire Sit Down
- The Strayaway Child / The Lark In The Morning
- Moses Ritora-Li-Ay
- Still I Love Him
- If you ever go to Ireland
- Moses Ritoolarilay
- The Turfman from Ardee (Arr. Barry)
- Half Door
- And There's Music Coming into My Head (Interview)
- Farewell, My Own Dear Native Land
- The Fermoy Lasses / The Pigeon on the Gate
- Moses Ritoolarilay (Arr. Barry)
- The Strayaway Child (Jig)
- Down by the Broom
- Turfman from Ardee
- Hills of Donegal
- Guiness Song
- Margaret Barry and Tommy McGuire
- the halfdoor
- If You Ever Go Over to Ireland / Rakish Paddy
- Three Lovely Lassies from Bannion
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