Barry (name) Barry (name) Barry is both a given name and a surname. The given name is an Anglicised form of several Irish personal names, while the surname has numerous etymological origins, and is derived from both place names and personal names. The given name "Barry" is derived from Gaelic, possibly being an Anglicised form of the personal name Báire, which is a short form of the related Irish names "Bairrfhionn" or "Barrfind" ("fair-headed", "fair-haired"). and "Finbar", or "Fionnbharr" ("fair-topped", "fair-haired"). For example, "Barry" is sometimes derived from the Irish "Bairre", "Barra", and "Barre", which are in turn forms of the name
Mick Barry (Irish politician) Mick Barry (Irish politician) Mick Barry (born 17 September 1964) is an Irish Solidarity–People Before Profit politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency since the 2016 general election. He is a member of the Socialist Party which has an international affiliation to the Trotskyist Committee for a Workers' International. The AAA was re-branded as "Solidarity" in 2017. According to the "Irish Examiner", Barry has been "a leading figure in the Cork and national campaigns" against household and water charges. Dick Spring expelled Barry, alongside Joe Higgins and 12 others, from the Labour Party in