Hi Christy,
a Happy New Year to you and all!
Thank you, Hilary, for providing he link. Makes it easy for us abroad to watch and so we can add Essen to the places where this great documentary has been watched😉.
Such interesting insights to the way you work, background information to so many songs and listening to the songs – my start into the new year could have been worse. Thanks to all involved in that project. Great work👍
And I have to increase my poor efforts of learning Gaeilge 😅
Looking forward to see you soon
Birgit
Happy New Years Christy and to your family,
I hope you have a wonderful year and years ahead. I did not get to watch your documentary (saw bits and pieces) yet but will, we are in a hockey frenzy season here in Canada.
All the best, see ya at the NCH in May.
Brendan O’Neill
What a great way to start 2026 by watching the documentary on TG4. A deep dive into the works. Keep the motor running Christy!
Hope to visit one of the gigs this year if all goes well.
A mighty New Years Eve watch on TG4.. a story to every song and a lovely conversation with Liam O Connor to listen to.. I’m with you on the Gaeilge.. though where better than this forum, where we learn so much, to expand on the cúpla focal.. Athbhlian Faoi Mhaise Dhuit to all!
Christy's reply
béidir ho mbeimíd go léir ag caint as Gaeilge an blían seo cughainn
Thank you for donating your archive to ITMA, and thank you to you and all involved in making the documentary. It was so wonderful, I find it hard to put into words how I felt watching it. I will be re-watching! I don’t know if it’s possible to visit ITMA and view the archive and listen to your recordings, without being a researcher or a member?
Happy New Year to you, all your family and friends and all Guestbook members.
All the best.
Anne
Christy's reply
They are planning an exhibition that will be open to anyone interested…log on to their mailing list
Hello Christy,
Loved every minute of your documentary. I nearly had a fit when your plan for Lord Baker hit the screen.
“£@£@%ing h£££!!! Pause it! pause it!! I need to get my camera!!!”
The air was blue and the camera was shaking…!
Some highlights for me were Gortatagort, yellow furze woman, cliffs of Dooneen with Barry, your mother’s wit, your wife’s clarity, Paula Mehan’s joy in the words, the way the rhythm of songs fills your body, the practicality of performing, your understanding of what ITMA are giving you, their trust and love.
Too much else is still bubbling away. It will return bit by bit over the next few days.
Dear Christy. I was watching TG4 player today. Impressing. I’m deeply moved. What a documentary. Thanks to all who are involved. It’s a wonderful project you implemented.
Thanks for letting us participate.
Dear Christy Moore, thank you for your music,
All the best to you and your family for 2026
And for all folkies around here.
Günter
Christy's reply
Is It Folk or is it Art or is it Rock & Roll ?
Acid House or Céilidh House
Does anybody know?
What a wonderful programme on TG4 brought back so many happy memories of days long past great nights everywhere from Slane House to The Royal Albert Hall and many in between including Beechmount and The Tailteann and Ballisodare and Lissdoonvarna and let’s not forget the tree planting ceremony in The Yellow Furze , The best of times and long may it continue
Happy New Year to you and Val, Christy.
I’m gutted I couldn’t get the programme over here.
I had a crush on Francy Grehan when they were over here and Davoc and his brother came with you to the Crown and Anchor.
What a wonderful lifetime the 60s and 70s gave us.
And what a legacy you have left and are still adding to.
I treasure the times we had in Manchester and am still amazed at the legend you have become.
Ride On.
What a way to ring in the new year, we couldn’t ask for better!
So beautifully articulated and put together. Fair play to everyone involved and to yourself of course.
Wishing yourself, Val and all the family a very happy new year.
Christy's reply
a lot of this started down the road from you in Pat Dowling’s….we gathered around Ned Farrell, Gerry O’Mahoney, Frank Burke,Michael Crehan, Davoc & Brigid Rynne,Mickey Carroll,we vamped on our bull-fiddles and encountered legends, Barney McKenna, The Grehan Sisters,Ciaran Bourke, Seamus Ennis, Tom McHale, Ted Fury,….Reels reverberating, porter lowered at an awful rate, Jim Casey, The Bagnall Brothers,Paddy Kenny,The Filling Station McCormack’s Jack Reddy, taking it all in….The Roadstone Cowboy, The Briquette Smugglers,Jockies on the tear, brickies on perpetual wet time, Nan McCormack & Liz Murphy duetting on the spoons, Nurses on Sick Leave, Cadets from The Curragh,Spoiled Priests making up for lost time,I’ll tell you Aisling, you could’nt make it up
What a New Year’s treat Christy. The history and songs were epic. Well done also to TG4. It was brilliant to be able to watch it live on the player. And for nought. Happy 2026 to you and yours Christy. Thanks so much.
Christy's reply
By Clyde’s bonny banks as I slowly did wander
Among the pit heaps as the evening grew nigh
I spied a young woman all dressed in black mourning
Weeping and wailing with many a sigh
I stepped up beside her and gently addressed her
Would it help you to talk about the cause of your pain?
Weeping and wailing at last she did answer
Johnny Murphy, kind sir, is my true lover’s name.
Twenty one years of age, full of youth and good looking
To work down the mine of High Blantyre he came
Our wedding was fixed all the guests were invited
That calm summers’ evening my Johnny was slain
The explosion was heard by the women and children
With pale anxious faces they ran to the mine
When the news was made known all the hills rang with mourning
Thee hundred and ten Scottish miners were slain.
Mothers and daughters and sweethearts and lovers
The Blantyre explosion you’ll never forget
All you good people who hear my sad story
Remember the miners who lie at their rest.
Dear Christy..
Happy New Year 🍀
This was so special, to watch
your documentary on TG 4 at the start of
the New Year. I am delighted and impressed. Such a great film.
Your story, the history, the songs,
the love for your work..
all this was heartwarming from the beginning to the end.
Thank you so much..
All the best for 2026 🍀
Love and Peace..
Trudy
Christy's reply
1986
You’ve carried me back to the Alte Oper in Frankfurt
Christy ,
First class programme tonight … I can’t wait to get INTO the archive now for a read ,look and listen … what a treasure to have to access ..
That is truly impressive and inspiring.
And you’re sounding powerful ..
Standing O Christo!
Baz x
Christy's reply
Theres One Fair County Baz
and we’re all living in it….
Hi Christy,
a Happy New Year to you and all!
Thank you, Hilary, for providing he link. Makes it easy for us abroad to watch and so we can add Essen to the places where this great documentary has been watched😉.
Such interesting insights to the way you work, background information to so many songs and listening to the songs – my start into the new year could have been worse. Thanks to all involved in that project. Great work👍
And I have to increase my poor efforts of learning Gaeilge 😅
Looking forward to see you soon
Birgit
Happy New Years Christy and to your family,
I hope you have a wonderful year and years ahead. I did not get to watch your documentary (saw bits and pieces) yet but will, we are in a hockey frenzy season here in Canada.
All the best, see ya at the NCH in May.
Brendan O’Neill
https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=6385845271112&series=Cartlann%20Christy%20Moore&genre=Ceol
What a great way to start 2026 by watching the documentary on TG4. A deep dive into the works. Keep the motor running Christy!
Hope to visit one of the gigs this year if all goes well.
John
Come All You Dreamers
A mighty New Years Eve watch on TG4.. a story to every song and a lovely conversation with Liam O Connor to listen to.. I’m with you on the Gaeilge.. though where better than this forum, where we learn so much, to expand on the cúpla focal.. Athbhlian Faoi Mhaise Dhuit to all!
béidir ho mbeimíd go léir ag caint as Gaeilge an blían seo cughainn
Dear Christy,
Thank you for donating your archive to ITMA, and thank you to you and all involved in making the documentary. It was so wonderful, I find it hard to put into words how I felt watching it. I will be re-watching! I don’t know if it’s possible to visit ITMA and view the archive and listen to your recordings, without being a researcher or a member?
Happy New Year to you, all your family and friends and all Guestbook members.
All the best.
Anne
They are planning an exhibition that will be open to anyone interested…log on to their mailing list
Chicago…
Hello Christy,
Loved every minute of your documentary. I nearly had a fit when your plan for Lord Baker hit the screen.
“£@£@%ing h£££!!! Pause it! pause it!! I need to get my camera!!!”
The air was blue and the camera was shaking…!
Some highlights for me were Gortatagort, yellow furze woman, cliffs of Dooneen with Barry, your mother’s wit, your wife’s clarity, Paula Mehan’s joy in the words, the way the rhythm of songs fills your body, the practicality of performing, your understanding of what ITMA are giving you, their trust and love.
Too much else is still bubbling away. It will return bit by bit over the next few days.
Thankyou
Rebecca
Thanks Rebecca
Yes the documentary was a joy to watch, and well worth further viewings. Congrats to all involved.Here is the link for anyone who could nt access it last night, it is available globally https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=6385845271112&series=Cartlann%20Christy%20Moore&genre=Ceol Beir bua agys beannacht. H
Thanks for the link H
so far its been watched in Tangier, Tokyo, Frankfurt, London, Oz & NZ
and Knocknagoshel
Dear Christy. I was watching TG4 player today. Impressing. I’m deeply moved. What a documentary. Thanks to all who are involved. It’s a wonderful project you implemented.
Thanks for letting us participate.
Dear Christy Moore, thank you for your music,
All the best to you and your family for 2026
And for all folkies around here.
Günter
Is It Folk or is it Art or is it Rock & Roll ?
Acid House or Céilidh House
Does anybody know?
What a wonderful programme on TG4 brought back so many happy memories of days long past great nights everywhere from Slane House to The Royal Albert Hall and many in between including Beechmount and The Tailteann and Ballisodare and Lissdoonvarna and let’s not forget the tree planting ceremony in The Yellow Furze , The best of times and long may it continue
Gotta get back and see how our tree is doing
Happy New Year to you and Val, Christy.
I’m gutted I couldn’t get the programme over here.
I had a crush on Francy Grehan when they were over here and Davoc and his brother came with you to the Crown and Anchor.
What a wonderful lifetime the 60s and 70s gave us.
And what a legacy you have left and are still adding to.
I treasure the times we had in Manchester and am still amazed at the legend you have become.
Ride On.
https://www.tg4.ie/en/player/play/?pid=6385845271112&series=Cartlann%20Christy%20Moore&genre=Ceol
try
What a way to ring in the new year, we couldn’t ask for better!
So beautifully articulated and put together. Fair play to everyone involved and to yourself of course.
Wishing yourself, Val and all the family a very happy new year.
a lot of this started down the road from you in Pat Dowling’s….we gathered around Ned Farrell, Gerry O’Mahoney, Frank Burke,Michael Crehan, Davoc & Brigid Rynne,Mickey Carroll,we vamped on our bull-fiddles and encountered legends, Barney McKenna, The Grehan Sisters,Ciaran Bourke, Seamus Ennis, Tom McHale, Ted Fury,….Reels reverberating, porter lowered at an awful rate, Jim Casey, The Bagnall Brothers,Paddy Kenny,The Filling Station McCormack’s Jack Reddy, taking it all in….The Roadstone Cowboy, The Briquette Smugglers,Jockies on the tear, brickies on perpetual wet time, Nan McCormack & Liz Murphy duetting on the spoons, Nurses on Sick Leave, Cadets from The Curragh,Spoiled Priests making up for lost time,I’ll tell you Aisling, you could’nt make it up
What a New Year’s treat Christy. The history and songs were epic. Well done also to TG4. It was brilliant to be able to watch it live on the player. And for nought. Happy 2026 to you and yours Christy. Thanks so much.
By Clyde’s bonny banks as I slowly did wander
Among the pit heaps as the evening grew nigh
I spied a young woman all dressed in black mourning
Weeping and wailing with many a sigh
I stepped up beside her and gently addressed her
Would it help you to talk about the cause of your pain?
Weeping and wailing at last she did answer
Johnny Murphy, kind sir, is my true lover’s name.
Twenty one years of age, full of youth and good looking
To work down the mine of High Blantyre he came
Our wedding was fixed all the guests were invited
That calm summers’ evening my Johnny was slain
The explosion was heard by the women and children
With pale anxious faces they ran to the mine
When the news was made known all the hills rang with mourning
Thee hundred and ten Scottish miners were slain.
Mothers and daughters and sweethearts and lovers
The Blantyre explosion you’ll never forget
All you good people who hear my sad story
Remember the miners who lie at their rest.
Dear Christy..
Happy New Year 🍀
This was so special, to watch
your documentary on TG 4 at the start of
the New Year. I am delighted and impressed. Such a great film.
Your story, the history, the songs,
the love for your work..
all this was heartwarming from the beginning to the end.
Thank you so much..
All the best for 2026 🍀
Love and Peace..
Trudy
1986
You’ve carried me back to the Alte Oper in Frankfurt
a wonderful Venue
Thank You Trudy
afterwards a mighty dinner in Darmstadt
cooked by my beautiful Sister
the late Sheila Isaacson of Mount Brown Dublin
It was excellent I watched the new documentary on TG4. Keep well and stay singing forever Christy!
Greetings to The Far East Yas
Thanks for your post
Yas in Tokyo
Baz in Armagh
Side by Side in Song
Christy ,
First class programme tonight … I can’t wait to get INTO the archive now for a read ,look and listen … what a treasure to have to access ..
That is truly impressive and inspiring.
And you’re sounding powerful ..
Standing O Christo!
Baz x
Theres One Fair County Baz
and we’re all living in it….