“GARRY OWEN NA GLORIA
AN OLD SONG AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS
We take the following with reference to the popular Irish air of Garry Owen from “Here and There through Ireland,” by Mary Banim: – There is a path, through yellow corn-fields and pleasant lanes, from St. Patrick's Well across to that world famed “Garry Owen na Gloria,” sung in every land where a Munster man penetrates – and that means every land under the sun….”

“Instead of Spa, we'll drink brown ale,
And pay the reckoning on the nail,
No man for debt shall go to gaol
        From Garry Owen na Gloria.”
[Freeman's Journal (Sydney, NSW) 19 Jul 1890]

Note: Several sources give the author as the daughter of John Banim (re: London Register, Crofton-Croker lyrics &c) but, no mention on his wiki page and their dates seem a bit off. Possible, if not probable.