Hi Christy
Spent ages enjoying the range of subjects on.the ITMA website…a pure treasure trove…
After awhile,I put ‘Christy Moore’ into the search box…fascinating results…Inc recordings from the ‘An Goilin’ project…made at the singers’ club in Dublin?In addition,are you making recordings specifically for ITMA/public access?
Fair play to all concerned.
Dave
Christy's reply
Over the last 18 months I’ve made many visits to the recording facility at Itma to work with Adam Girard… we have recorded about 200 songs….also did some specicfic recordings with David Meade at sound checks and rehearsals…it has been a fulfilling experience…
Hi Christy, the festival was a rockingly good success.
Both Declan/Jennifer and wee David were sensational.
We had sold out gigs aplenty, a visiting cm devotee from Yorks, lots of local talent , wide variety of venues and even a pop quiz to boot.
Shattered,sated,soothed.
All we need for next year is……
Cheers
Rory
Christy's reply
a great achievement……well done….
Glory Hallelujah…the cod liver oil and the orange juice
Hi Christy
Have you any plans to come back to London? Every time you’ve been in London my sisters and I have gone to your brilliant gigs and we’re missing seeing you. Maybe you have plans to come next year? If not we’ll come over to Ireland, our parents are from Ballinamore Leitrim.
God Bless
Christy's reply
No plans Josie…..I too miss my trips to Blighty….so many great venues across the years ..from the highs of The Forum in Kentish Town right across to t’Albert Hall in Royal Kensington..from the Troubadour to Nell’s Café….Battersea Park to The Finsbury Fleadh
“Leitrim is a very funny place Sir
its a strange and a troubled land
all the boys are in the IRA sir
all the women are in Cumann na mBan
every tractor has a Nicky Kelly sticker
displayed for all to Sea
even sheep are advising
there’ll be another rising
said the man fro RTE”
( from the “Ballad of Ballinamore” by Fintan Vallely….a parody of an old London song called The man from the BBC )
Hi Christy
Always good to read ITMA info and updates…especially about the project to archive/display the items you’ve donated.
It will be a brilliant resource for many people and easily accessed online…I hope it will also be possible for it to be sold in paper format- For dinosaurs like me ,who love the feel of paper and a well produced photo or several…here’s hoping…I hope you’re enjoying the selection process. Must be a dream job for the curator!
Great that there’s such ollaboration by you and ITMA
Dave
Christy's reply
Working with the Trad Archive is a wonderful experience…. a great team of archivists,curators, listeners, restorators, recorders and footsoldiers work hard creating a vital archive for all forms of our traditional music and songs ….all of them have love and passion for the work they do
They provide a rich source of material for anyone interested in our Tradition….
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for your kind and encouraging comments leading up to my gig. You said exactly what I needed to hear. 💚
And now, I’ve got to get me some more of these gig things. Love it love it love it!
I did two 40 minute sets to a lovely appreciative audience. They hung on tenaciously and filled the space with welcome. One little girl was fascinated by the harp so I took it over to show her. Big eyes!
Here’s a list
Scarborough Fair
Allende
Caledonia
Lullaby of London
Foxy Devil
Spancil Hill
Athenry
Bright Blue Rose
Lightning bird
Rosalita and Jack
There are others too but I’ve lost them at the moment.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
that’s a lovely run of songs you have there
according to all accounts
Hawick was the place to be
Thanks Christy,
Pat remembered your brief encounter in one of his oul poems.
Reading a bit of Pat and listening to the box set 1964-2004
lightens the load from a day.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
“Wolfgang ‘s playin on the comb
someone shouts at him go home
Klaus ‘s playin a slow air on the Bodhrán
Quinn from Corofin
his fiddle tucked beneath his chin
he’s goin to play The Bucks Oranmore now
an old fashioned Lady
begins to sing a song
ah lads a bit of order over there
Clarinbridge for the chowder
keep your powder dry
for the Contintental Céilí tonight”
Thanks for posting….fair play to all concerned…..its 40 years since I first gigged with Mary in the NCH….Declan Sinnott and herself teamed up for the first time…I’d heard Mary previously when she sang with General Humbert…
I hope this track flies
Hi C The great poet and feminist Paula Meehan praises your activism on radio this am, of course there is mention of Folktale and they play a snippet of Beeswing. Scroll through to about 56 minutes to hear the interview https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/brendan-oconnor/2025/0809/1527675-brendan-oconnor-saturday-9-august-2025// An Riocht is preparing for Puck and The Roses, Kevin M and the Highstool Prophets will headline the main stage next Fri. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
Paula brings poetry to life for many of us…
thanks for signposting this H….
Hello Christy,
Well, we’re getting the wagons ready for rolling here. Up through the hills, dales, there’s even a fell at one point. Up to the lovely town of Hawick. There’s a David Keenan gig tonight. First time to hear him live. Then Saturday. Sound check at 11. The gig starts at 12. Great to read Rory’s anticipation for the festival weekend. Good luck to all.
The Dublin mammy
looked lovingly
into the pram
and said –
“How’s Mammy’s
scruffy little
bastard ! ?”
And the baby gurgled
with delight.
It’s all in the way
that you say it.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Christy's reply
I met the beautiful man once…outside the Central Bank on that busy street…he greeted me as if we had been life-long friends..it has remained that way ever since…the mere mention of his name always rekindles that sunny day, the afternoon that I once met my life-long friend…..Thanks Bourkey
i said to mum One of the only paragraphs that makes sense to me regarding what i said is – and its the chords ( C G C G Am Em and a few F’s in there as well
” for all of our languages we can’t communicate – for all of our native tounges- were all natives here – son’s of their mother’s dream they had the same dream … … .
Biglovelovebig Gitsy ❤️7️⃣🐈⬛🎵
Jason aka full flight Getting better 🙏
Before i headed to swanage tonight i was chatting to mum & she mentioned – “Jason christy signed a petition to support other singers/musicians to not perform at “Mise éire” which sparked interest. “Get up their website mum this Mise éire see what there about … … . 🤔
After 30 seconds of an overview from a man – i headed off to swanage 🚢🛥🛳
Just back from swanage 🚢 🚣♂️ 🛥
And had a quick look at the Irish independent (I’m not educated a lot on tabloids – politics or history not as much as id like to be) the paper said about promoting Irish culture ✅️ traditions ✅️ music ✅️ happy days
i get confused at times thinking who am i?- where am i from? Born in bruff co limerick moved to Foleshill in Coventry and area where we all lived together seek’s – good muss-lims – Irish – Jamaican’s – English – Scottish and i had friends in all communities and mostly second generation lads and girl’s. We eat together – we drank beer’s in the park together – we danced together – we worked together – we cried together and laid some to rest together.
i don’t understand the wor
Christy's reply
The dark side is impossible to understand…cant make head nor tail of it myself…for today, just for today, I think I’ll try to seek some light….
Well CM youse buggers did us in the rugby despite an improved last match – well done Lions
Aussie Rules mania in vogue here as Finals loom – my team not a contender
Palestine: A glimmer of hope ?🤞🤞🙏🙏
Ukraine maybe too?
Surely the world will wake up soon..
Many thanks for the many songs
I sneak a few on air in my Long Lunch radio show on Community Radio 106.7 HotFM http://www.hotfm.org.au
keep em up – the more the merrier
Greetings – Danny Harris
Christy's reply
Mother Earth is always wide awake Danny …
forever spinning in the firmament..
with or without us,
She will spin on eternally.
There will be no sign whatsoever of our presence..
(apart from plastic and nuclear waste)
in the meantime
Have a good day up there
Hi Christy,
” Hiroshima Nagasaki” just been played on the Louise Duffy Show on Radio 1….what a song !!!!
Ride On.
Patsy
Christy's reply
I think I’ll rehearse it today and maybe give it a run out in Wexford next week…its been off the set list for many years….Jim Page brought that fine song to Carnsore Point 46 years ago…seems like last weekend
Hi Christy,
I am too excited to sleep, and i feel like that shouldn’t happen to a bloke of my age.
Our Live Music Hawick weekend starts tomorrow.
With Derry’s Declan Mclaughlin and Dundalk’s David Keenan playing starring roles, ably supported by some wonderful acts from near, far and Yorkshire, the Teris of Hawick and our visitors are in for a treat ,in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues.
Our very own bona fide pop star Eric Faulkner will be floating about too.
Just as well that the hills around Hawick are filled with sheep, i will need to count plenty of them tonight.
Rory
Christy's reply
Rory… I’m never aware of age when we communicate… I read the language of a young heart
I wonder if the reading on your Nuclear weapon gauge moved much recently, Hilary. I’ve been reading Christy and replies a while and it seems you are tuned into to something there. Incidentally, I spoke with a B-29 commander who was in line with others that day, waiting for the first plane to return, or not (I spoke his language through my father, who joined the AF in ’49 to learn electronics, and was on a 29). He said the crew pulled up chairs and tossed fishing lines when they got back, said this thing is over. I suppose it’s that way when you’re in it. The powers-that-be count on short memories and populations thinking better them than us.
Christy's reply
the old gauge is flickering towards the red these days Brendan..
Michael Coady wrote:
Though there are torturers in the world
There are also musicians.
Though, at this moment,
Men are screaming in prisons,
There are jazzmen raising storms
Of sensuous celebration,
And orchestras releasing
Glories of the Spirit.
Though the image of God
Is everywhere defiled,
A man in West Clare
Is playing the concertina,
The Sistine Choir is levitating
Under the dome of St. Peter’s,
And a drunk man on the road
Is singing, for no reason
Great news Kevin…. there’s gonna be good times…
Been a bit of crying in the Hills lately (but of a different nature…. ) lost to a better team so no complaints on that one…. only that our men didn’t do themselves justice after a fine campaign.
We will let the music keep our spirits high…. and hope for better days in Croke Park.
Gigs will soon return too…. always something to look forward to.
Christy's reply
Thats the spirit Marty…take it on the chin and come back fighting…no moaning but eternal hope for the future….a new arrival in Cavan hopefully a sign of better times ahead….
Ps
Returned to the site and saw info about An Goilin’…superb and so apt it has it’s place in the archives…D
some Góilín nights have been legendary
Hi Christy
Spent ages enjoying the range of subjects on.the ITMA website…a pure treasure trove…
After awhile,I put ‘Christy Moore’ into the search box…fascinating results…Inc recordings from the ‘An Goilin’ project…made at the singers’ club in Dublin?In addition,are you making recordings specifically for ITMA/public access?
Fair play to all concerned.
Dave
Over the last 18 months I’ve made many visits to the recording facility at Itma to work with Adam Girard… we have recorded about 200 songs….also did some specicfic recordings with David Meade at sound checks and rehearsals…it has been a fulfilling experience…
Hi Christy, the festival was a rockingly good success.
Both Declan/Jennifer and wee David were sensational.
We had sold out gigs aplenty, a visiting cm devotee from Yorks, lots of local talent , wide variety of venues and even a pop quiz to boot.
Shattered,sated,soothed.
All we need for next year is……
Cheers
Rory
a great achievement……well done….
Glory Hallelujah…the cod liver oil and the orange juice
Hi Christy
Have you any plans to come back to London? Every time you’ve been in London my sisters and I have gone to your brilliant gigs and we’re missing seeing you. Maybe you have plans to come next year? If not we’ll come over to Ireland, our parents are from Ballinamore Leitrim.
God Bless
No plans Josie…..I too miss my trips to Blighty….so many great venues across the years ..from the highs of The Forum in Kentish Town right across to t’Albert Hall in Royal Kensington..from the Troubadour to Nell’s Café….Battersea Park to The Finsbury Fleadh
“Leitrim is a very funny place Sir
its a strange and a troubled land
all the boys are in the IRA sir
all the women are in Cumann na mBan
every tractor has a Nicky Kelly sticker
displayed for all to Sea
even sheep are advising
there’ll be another rising
said the man fro RTE”
( from the “Ballad of Ballinamore” by Fintan Vallely….a parody of an old London song called The man from the BBC )
Hi Christy
Always good to read ITMA info and updates…especially about the project to archive/display the items you’ve donated.
It will be a brilliant resource for many people and easily accessed online…I hope it will also be possible for it to be sold in paper format- For dinosaurs like me ,who love the feel of paper and a well produced photo or several…here’s hoping…I hope you’re enjoying the selection process. Must be a dream job for the curator!
Great that there’s such ollaboration by you and ITMA
Dave
Working with the Trad Archive is a wonderful experience…. a great team of archivists,curators, listeners, restorators, recorders and footsoldiers work hard creating a vital archive for all forms of our traditional music and songs ….all of them have love and passion for the work they do
They provide a rich source of material for anyone interested in our Tradition….
House of the Rising Sun
Aeongus
Motherland
May Morning Dew
❤️✅️7️⃣🐈⬛🐈☘️💡🙏 … … . Thank u 🎵
(Your word “light” cover’s my crazy email – no reply needed
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for your kind and encouraging comments leading up to my gig. You said exactly what I needed to hear. 💚
And now, I’ve got to get me some more of these gig things. Love it love it love it!
I did two 40 minute sets to a lovely appreciative audience. They hung on tenaciously and filled the space with welcome. One little girl was fascinated by the harp so I took it over to show her. Big eyes!
Here’s a list
Scarborough Fair
Allende
Caledonia
Lullaby of London
Foxy Devil
Spancil Hill
Athenry
Bright Blue Rose
Lightning bird
Rosalita and Jack
There are others too but I’ve lost them at the moment.
Rebecca
that’s a lovely run of songs you have there
according to all accounts
Hawick was the place to be
Thanks Christy,
Pat remembered your brief encounter in one of his oul poems.
Reading a bit of Pat and listening to the box set 1964-2004
lightens the load from a day.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
“Wolfgang ‘s playin on the comb
someone shouts at him go home
Klaus ‘s playin a slow air on the Bodhrán
Quinn from Corofin
his fiddle tucked beneath his chin
he’s goin to play The Bucks Oranmore now
an old fashioned Lady
begins to sing a song
ah lads a bit of order over there
Clarinbridge for the chowder
keep your powder dry
for the Contintental Céilí tonight”
Hi. Its been a radio day ! I just heard this it’s so powerful, maybe people would consider supporting it ? https://youtu.be/-a5Qjd-epSM?si=J4E_Haw2eIJBwc20 Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Thanks for posting….fair play to all concerned…..its 40 years since I first gigged with Mary in the NCH….Declan Sinnott and herself teamed up for the first time…I’d heard Mary previously when she sang with General Humbert…
I hope this track flies
Hi C The great poet and feminist Paula Meehan praises your activism on radio this am, of course there is mention of Folktale and they play a snippet of Beeswing. Scroll through to about 56 minutes to hear the interview https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/brendan-oconnor/2025/0809/1527675-brendan-oconnor-saturday-9-august-2025// An Riocht is preparing for Puck and The Roses, Kevin M and the Highstool Prophets will headline the main stage next Fri. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Paula brings poetry to life for many of us…
thanks for signposting this H….
Hello Christy,
Well, we’re getting the wagons ready for rolling here. Up through the hills, dales, there’s even a fell at one point. Up to the lovely town of Hawick. There’s a David Keenan gig tonight. First time to hear him live. Then Saturday. Sound check at 11. The gig starts at 12. Great to read Rory’s anticipation for the festival weekend. Good luck to all.
Rebecca
That Hawick may resound
Hi Christy.
Another one from Pat Indgoldsby
Words Of Love
The Dublin mammy
looked lovingly
into the pram
and said –
“How’s Mammy’s
scruffy little
bastard ! ?”
And the baby gurgled
with delight.
It’s all in the way
that you say it.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
I met the beautiful man once…outside the Central Bank on that busy street…he greeted me as if we had been life-long friends..it has remained that way ever since…the mere mention of his name always rekindles that sunny day, the afternoon that I once met my life-long friend…..Thanks Bourkey
Apologies i hit the wrong button.
World 🌎
i said to mum One of the only paragraphs that makes sense to me regarding what i said is – and its the chords ( C G C G Am Em and a few F’s in there as well
” for all of our languages we can’t communicate – for all of our native tounges- were all natives here – son’s of their mother’s dream they had the same dream … … .
Biglovelovebig Gitsy ❤️7️⃣🐈⬛🎵
Jason aka full flight Getting better 🙏
Good Man Jason….Thank You
Hi Gitsy… … . Hope all is well ❤️7️⃣🐈⬛🙏
Before i headed to swanage tonight i was chatting to mum & she mentioned – “Jason christy signed a petition to support other singers/musicians to not perform at “Mise éire” which sparked interest. “Get up their website mum this Mise éire see what there about … … . 🤔
After 30 seconds of an overview from a man – i headed off to swanage 🚢🛥🛳
Just back from swanage 🚢 🚣♂️ 🛥
And had a quick look at the Irish independent (I’m not educated a lot on tabloids – politics or history not as much as id like to be) the paper said about promoting Irish culture ✅️ traditions ✅️ music ✅️ happy days
i get confused at times thinking who am i?- where am i from? Born in bruff co limerick moved to Foleshill in Coventry and area where we all lived together seek’s – good muss-lims – Irish – Jamaican’s – English – Scottish and i had friends in all communities and mostly second generation lads and girl’s. We eat together – we drank beer’s in the park together – we danced together – we worked together – we cried together and laid some to rest together.
i don’t understand the wor
The dark side is impossible to understand…cant make head nor tail of it myself…for today, just for today, I think I’ll try to seek some light….
Well CM youse buggers did us in the rugby despite an improved last match – well done Lions
Aussie Rules mania in vogue here as Finals loom – my team not a contender
Palestine: A glimmer of hope ?🤞🤞🙏🙏
Ukraine maybe too?
Surely the world will wake up soon..
Many thanks for the many songs
I sneak a few on air in my Long Lunch radio show on Community Radio 106.7 HotFM
http://www.hotfm.org.au
keep em up – the more the merrier
Greetings – Danny Harris
Mother Earth is always wide awake Danny …
forever spinning in the firmament..
with or without us,
She will spin on eternally.
There will be no sign whatsoever of our presence..
(apart from plastic and nuclear waste)
in the meantime
Have a good day up there
Hi Christy,
” Hiroshima Nagasaki” just been played on the Louise Duffy Show on Radio 1….what a song !!!!
Ride On.
Patsy
I think I’ll rehearse it today and maybe give it a run out in Wexford next week…its been off the set list for many years….Jim Page brought that fine song to Carnsore Point 46 years ago…seems like last weekend
Hi Christy,
I am too excited to sleep, and i feel like that shouldn’t happen to a bloke of my age.
Our Live Music Hawick weekend starts tomorrow.
With Derry’s Declan Mclaughlin and Dundalk’s David Keenan playing starring roles, ably supported by some wonderful acts from near, far and Yorkshire, the Teris of Hawick and our visitors are in for a treat ,in a variety of indoor and outdoor venues.
Our very own bona fide pop star Eric Faulkner will be floating about too.
Just as well that the hills around Hawick are filled with sheep, i will need to count plenty of them tonight.
Rory
Rory… I’m never aware of age when we communicate… I read the language of a young heart
I wonder if the reading on your Nuclear weapon gauge moved much recently, Hilary. I’ve been reading Christy and replies a while and it seems you are tuned into to something there. Incidentally, I spoke with a B-29 commander who was in line with others that day, waiting for the first plane to return, or not (I spoke his language through my father, who joined the AF in ’49 to learn electronics, and was on a 29). He said the crew pulled up chairs and tossed fishing lines when they got back, said this thing is over. I suppose it’s that way when you’re in it. The powers-that-be count on short memories and populations thinking better them than us.
the old gauge is flickering towards the red these days Brendan..
Michael Coady wrote:
Though there are torturers in the world
There are also musicians.
Though, at this moment,
Men are screaming in prisons,
There are jazzmen raising storms
Of sensuous celebration,
And orchestras releasing
Glories of the Spirit.
Though the image of God
Is everywhere defiled,
A man in West Clare
Is playing the concertina,
The Sistine Choir is levitating
Under the dome of St. Peter’s,
And a drunk man on the road
Is singing, for no reason
Great news Kevin…. there’s gonna be good times…
Been a bit of crying in the Hills lately (but of a different nature…. ) lost to a better team so no complaints on that one…. only that our men didn’t do themselves justice after a fine campaign.
We will let the music keep our spirits high…. and hope for better days in Croke Park.
Gigs will soon return too…. always something to look forward to.
Thats the spirit Marty…take it on the chin and come back fighting…no moaning but eternal hope for the future….a new arrival in Cavan hopefully a sign of better times ahead….