A native of Ennis Co. Clare, Gerry O’Beirne is a renowned player of the six and twelve string guitars and many other stringed instruments. His songs such as 'The holy Ground' and 'Western Highway' have been recorded by Mary Black, Maura O’Connell, Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, Andy Irvine and many others.

He has toured the globe as a solo artist and played with Patrick Street, Midnight Well, Andy M. Stewart, Kevin Burke, Andy Irvine, The Waterboys, The Sharon Shannon Band and Arthur Russell’s Instrumentals. He has performed at the White House and on Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion, opened for the Grateful Dead, and played electric guitar with Marianne Faithfull.

His latest album is Swimming The Horses, a collection of songs and music written on the Dingle Peninsula where he lives.