Margaret Barry

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She Moved Through the Fair 04:52 Tools
The Blarney Stone 02:40 Tools
The Factory Girl 02:55 Tools
She Moves Through the Fair 03:46 Tools
Guinness Song 02:10 Tools
The Galway Shawl 03:06 Tools
Her Mantle so Green 03:57 Tools
My Lagan Love 04:26 Tools
The Flower of Sweet Strabane 02:37 Tools
The Bold Fenian Men 04:13 Tools
The Bard of Armagh 03:44 Tools
Farewell To My Own Native Land 00:00 Tools
The Wild Colonial Boy 03:18 Tools
The Turfman from Ardee 03:10 Tools
Going to Mass Last Sunday 00:55 Tools
Galway Shawl 03:37 Tools
I Sang Through the Fairs 02:51 Tools
She Moved Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day) 03:43 Tools
Ballyjamesduff 03:29 Tools
Gra Machree 04:06 Tools
Me Mother Is Dying 03:34 Tools
When You're Fond of Music 05:09 Tools
Come Back Paddy Reilly 04:53 Tools
Lovin' Hannah 01:05 Tools
If You Ever Go Over to Ireland 02:24 Tools
Reel: Dr. Gilbert 02:38 Tools
The Stray-Away Child / The Lark in the Morning 03:17 Tools
If You Ever Go O'er to Ireland 02:21 Tools
Breakdown 01:48 Tools
Let Mr. Maguire Sit Down 01:47 Tools
The Strayaway Child 02:02 Tools
She Moves Through the Fair (Our Wedding Day) 05:16 Tools
She Moved Through the Fair (Long Version) 03:04 Tools
The Cycling Championship Of Ulster 02:38 Tools
She Moved Thru The Fair 03:07 Tools
Wild Colonial Boy 03:07 Tools
Breakdown (Banjo Instrumental) 01:48 Tools
The Hills of Donegal 03:17 Tools
Boys of the Town 03:19 Tools
Dwyer's Hornpipe 02:56 Tools
Keening Diddling & Lullabies 03:14 Tools
Our Ship Is Ready 01:18 Tools
Belfast Hornpipe (Banjo Duet) 02:47 Tools
Hornpipe: The Boys of Bluehill 02:21 Tools
O Gramachree 03:16 Tools
and there's music coming into my head 05:16 Tools
A Parody / Margaret Unidentified 03:17 Tools
The Half Door 02:44 Tools
Moses Ritoorel-i-ay 02:30 Tools
Leprechaun 01:50 Tools
Eileen Mcmahon Green Grow the Rushes 03:18 Tools
Moses Ritoora-Li-Ay 00:00 Tools
Polkas: Maguire's Favourite / Tralee Gaol / Maggie In the Wood 03:23 Tools
Jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork / Fasten the Legging 03:12 Tools
Reels: The Yellow Tinker / The Corner House 02:33 Tools
Keening, Diddling and Lullabies 03:15 Tools
Cottage with the Horseshoe 01:39 Tools
Moses Ritora-Li-Ay 02:42 Tools
Kathleen 04:08 Tools
The Cottage With the Horseshoe O'er the Door 00:58 Tools
Let Mr Maguire Sit Down 00:00 Tools
The Strayaway Child / The Lark In The Morning 02:57 Tools
The Leprechaun 01:47 Tools
Lovely Derry on the Banks of the Foyle 05:00 Tools
Reels: The Bunch of Keys / The Heather Breeze 02:58 Tools
The Strayaway Child (Jig) 01:59 Tools
The Guinness Song 02:11 Tools
The Clycling Champion of Ulster 03:19 Tools
Half Door 02:47 Tools
The Cycling Champions of Ulster 02:47 Tools
Down by the Broom 03:31 Tools
Me Mother Is Dying (Interview) 03:16 Tools
Eileen McMahon / Green Grow the Rushes 02:47 Tools
Eileen McMahon 02:41 Tools
Moses Ritoolarilay 02:41 Tools
Moses Ritoora Li Ay 02:11 Tools
Moses Ritora Li Ay 02:11 Tools
She Moved Through the Fair (2) 02:41 Tools
The Turfman from Arlee 03:16 Tools
The Galway Shawl (feat. Michael Gorman) 03:16 Tools
Eileen McMahon, Green Grow the Rushes 03:16 Tools
The Cottage With the Horseshoe 01:37 Tools
Come Back Paddy Riley 04:49 Tools
The Cycling Championship of Ulster (feat. Michael Gorman) 04:49 Tools
Reel: Dr. Gilbert (feat. Michael Gorman) 04:49 Tools
The Turfman From Ardee (feat. Michael Gorman) 04:49 Tools
If you ever go to Ireland 03:59 Tools
Hills of Donegal 04:49 Tools
Farewell, My Own Dear Native Land 04:49 Tools
The Flower of Sweet Strabane (feat. Michael Gorman) 04:49 Tools
Jigs: The Rambling Pitchfork / Fasten the Legging (feat. Michael Gorman) 03:20 Tools
The Wild Colonial Boy (feat. Michael Gorman) 04:49 Tools
Lovely Hannah 03:16 Tools
Barney Brannigan 04:49 Tools
Margaret Barry and Tommy McGuire 01:37 Tools
And There's Music Coming into My Head (Interview) 01:37 Tools
Keening, Diddling and Lullabies (interview) 01:37 Tools
Guiness Song 04:49 Tools
Down by the Sea 03:20 Tools
Keening, Diddling, and Lullabies 04:49 Tools
Bally James Duff 04:49 Tools
Belfast Hornpipe 04:49 Tools
The Cottages With The Horseshoe 03:41 Tools
I Don't Mind If I Do 03:20 Tools
I Sang Through the Fairs (interview) 03:20 Tools
Down the Broom / Pigeon on the Gate 03:29 Tools
Londonderry and the Banks of the Foyle 03:29 Tools
The Boys of the Town / The Killishadra Lasses 03:16 Tools
Bally Jamesduff 03:30 Tools
The Cycling Champion Of Ulster 03:20 Tools
A Parody 03:20 Tools
The Rose of Mooncoin 03:59 Tools
The Leprachaun 03:59 Tools
Moses Ritoora 03:59 Tools
Haste to the Wedding 03:59 Tools
Turfman from Ardee 03:59 Tools
Polkas: Maguire's Favourite / Tralee Gaol / Maggie In the Wood (feat. Michael Gorman) 03:59 Tools
The Factory Girl (feat. Michael Gorman) 03:59 Tools
Banjo on My Side 03:59 Tools
She Moved Through the Fair [Long Version] 03:59 Tools
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1917-1990 Margaret Barry 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, and Barry's singing and banjo playing became a main influence on the younger generation of ballad singers like Luke Kelly. In London she also caught the attention of Alan Lomax who made a series of recordings of her alone and with Michael Gorman, recordings that further established her position as the grand old lady of Irish ballad singing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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