Peter Barry (born 24 November 1974) is an Irish retired hurler who played as a left wing-back for the Kilkenny senior team.
Barry made his first appearance for the team during the 1997 championship and was a regular member of the starting fifteen until his retirement after the 2005 championship. During that time he won three All-Ireland winners' medals, five Leinster winners' medals, three National League winners' medals and three All-Star awards. Barry ended up as an All-Ireland runner-up on three occasions.
At club level Barry is a one-time All-Ireland-winning captain with James Stephens. In addition to this he has also won two Leinster medals and two county club championship medals.
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“Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
“But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle’s van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man.”
—Michael J. Barry (1817–1889)