Barry Tierney

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Barry Tierney is a multi-international award-winning singer and songwriter from Kinsale, south Ireland. Barry is from a prestigious musical family on his mother’s side which includes several professors of music and Vincent Dowling, the late artistic director of The Abbey Theatre, and a paternal connection to Finbar Wright the internationally renowned tenor. Barry’s unique singing voice and writing style are distinctly Irish and have gained him fans at home and abroad. Barry has been presented songwriting awards by such names as Robin Gibbs of The Bee Gees (Winning the International Songwriting contest) and Bob Geldof of the Boomtown Rats as well as Jimmy Deenihan, the Irish Minister of Arts at the time, after winning the IMRO sponsored Sean McCarthy writing festival award. Barry topped the Irish iTunes Charts in 2014 with his critically acclaimed album Hotel Alamar which led to him signing a lifetime publishing deal with Universal Music Berlin.