Garrett Barry's

Garrett Barry (1847 to 1899) was a piper from Inagh in west Clare, born in the worst years of the Great Famine and blinded by famine sickness as a child. He made his living playing for the farming people of west Clare, died in the Ennistymon poorhouse and is buried at Inagh under a stone that calls him "Piper."

Willie Clancy had this jig from his father, who learned it from Barry himself. A mazurka and a reel also carry Barry's name. Sessions play two main versions of the jig: this one in D mixolydian, and a dorian one popularized by fiddler Kevin Burke.