Years of happiness we got from you through your music and friendship.80 is only a number a privilage denied to many.looking forward to seeing you soon.
Noeleen and Seanie
Christy's reply
great to hear from you two…has me thinking..we first met in Kate Reillys Kitchen..thats a good while back..used to be a crackin venue back in the 80s/90s…I recall the booker was called Ronnie..I remembered him earlier years when he played with Jimmy Dunny’s Orchestra in Newbridge…are you still giggin Seanie ?…tell us a bit about whats happening down Coolnacupogue way…
heres a note I got from my Buddy in Boston about “Two island Swans”..I know you always call it out when I’m playing in Waterford
Hello Christy Ihope you can open this video let me know if it works or I will get it to you another way its from Corky Laing the last surviving member of mountain I am involved in a venue here on the Cape where we bring in local regional national and international touring bands but we had Corky in the other week but a few weeks back we were talking on the phone and I was telling him about you doing One Last Cold Kiss since the 70s so I sent him a video of yourself and Declan doing the song I think from the Point anyway it really touched him he told the story of Felix Pappalardi and his wife writing the song as love song about each other and as you know tragically his wife shot him dead but in all the years they never played it live until the other week he did it with the band for the first time and it was special anyway enjoy it .
Yes , great to see and read another Chat from your good self… a nice insight to the latest happenings in the world of your music , song and more besides
You are always most generous in telling us how much it means to you to have played and continue to play with other special artists… and to still hope to get together with Donal again….now that will be special.
As far as I can see there is only one candidate to follow our President in the true spirit of Michael D., and I’m glad to see you endorsing Catherine Connolly.
We look forward to getting back to a gig soon…. it’s been a busy few months for us but the gigs keep calling us.
Hi Christy,
Thanks for a wonderful “Chat”, told in plain language and straight from the Heart. Really looking forward to the Expo in the ITMA, and the TG4 documentary. Will the chats be included in the ITMA exhibition ? They are very much part of the story throughout the years. Long may the gigs continue, each one is special and so much appreciated by everyone. Each one unique too, whether it is the spontaneous heckler, the new young listener, the long haul traveller, us oldies, or a song reappearing out of the Blue, all making for a really special experience.
Best Regards,
Ride on
Patsy
GRMMA don Chat nua C. It’s always great to hear about the gigs and stuff from your side of the lamps. Thanks for all the joy and fun you spread, I appreciate it all. On a serious note as we face into the Presidential Election which , I feel will be a defining one, with left , centre and right wing candidates thank you for nailing your colours to the mast. I am hopeful. Beir bua agus beannacht go deo. H
Christy's reply
Yes H..I have been more than happy to support Catherine Connolly, a most fitting candidate to enter Árus and Uachtaráin… over many years Catherine has consistently established herself as a tireless and selfless campaigner for Human Rights, Peoples Rights, for a fair and just society for her constituency…
How ya Christy!
Back home in Salisbury now.
We are going to be working on songs from A Terrible Beauty. We have Boy In The Wild in our library already!
It’s great fans have been quizzing over the 3 songs you mentioned.
Kind regards,
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
I am not giving up on seeing you for the first damn time when I visit Ireland in November…for the first darn time. I reviewed The Voyage long long ago for CMJ Radio Journal and have been a fan ever since.
Tickets were gone by the time they were released here….here’s hoping you’ll announce some extras.
Love from New York, where we know the truth about the amadán “in charge!”
Hello Christy
All My backs are packed,I’m ready to go…leaving on a jet plane…No idea why that song is in my head?
Hopefully the cyber attack at Brussels airport will be under control tomorrow so we can come over to Trim. This time I will bring my son Eli he likes an Ordinary man very much. It reminds him of his childhood,
Apparently I’ve played that song a lot.
Anyway glad to see you again whatever you will play.
Greetings Chris
Christy's reply
wish you safe and trouble free travels….happy to be returning to Trim…its a good gig room…we’ll rattle the chandeliers
Oh my! Christy!
You’re the man to do it.
Let’s keep the amorous but faithful Lord Baker on his toes.
So glad to hear you’re enjoying it.
Christy's reply
Sophia’s arrival in verse 18 brings an added dimension…I ‘ve been singing this song for 45 years not knowing her name…”Turkey’s daughter” never conjured up any alluring images ..also love “splinters three” and “Coach & Three”…earlier on the image of the oak tree in the prison yard is also welcome addition
Hi Christy,
Methinks …
Clock winds down
Arthur’s day
And So do I
don’t be featuring…
Enjoy the day and Thursday’s gig.
Bourkey
Christy's reply
be the Lord Harry Bourkey you’re on the money..
thems the very 3…
methinks a spot prize might be in order…
I may have gigged “Arthur’s Day “a handful of times but it always died the death… but it had its job done
“Clock Winds Down” I gigged for a while..sometimes songs slip out of the reckoning without any decision being made…they simply slip quietly away…but they can just as easily come back into the reckoning…recently Smoke & Whiskey, Lawless, Ronnie Reagan have made welcome returns out of the blue
other songs get recorded and never make the transition to ballad lounge….China Waltz, Lost Tribe,Siren’s Voice, Lovely Young One, a few that never faced the lamps,
“So Do I” is such a beautiful song…but I feel it needs the magic riffs of Messrs Lunny & Sinnott…any time I play is solo here in the work room it feels incomplete
” I’ll cross the seven oceans,forever more I’ll wander”
busy here today…Yorkshire Becca posted a version of Lord Baker (Bateman) from a singer in Hull….it had some additional lines to John Reilly’s version…I’m about to sacreligiously introduce some yorkie lines into the rossie version …may sing them at the Frank Harte Festival this weekend….
‘More Christy’ setlist 20th September, The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip:-
North And South
Wise And Holy Woman
Biko Drum
Spancil Hill
Go Move Shift
Farmer Michael Hayes
Where I Come From
Black Is The Colour
McIlhatton
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Back Home In Derry
Burning Times
Missing You
Clock Winds Down
Arthur’s Day
So Do I
Sail On Jimmy
Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
Viva la Quinta Brigada
The Contender
Hiroshima Nagasaki
The Voyage
Johnny Jump Up
The Two Conneeleys
Delirium Tremens
Smoke And Strong Whiskey
Ride On
Sixteen Fishermen Raving
Honda 50
Lisdoonvarna (incl “Tell Me Ma”)
Christy's reply
thats some set list Dave…
a 100% tribute…
all bar three have featured betimes in my own set lists across 2025..
those 3 are grouped together in your set
nothing from “A Terrible Beauty” yet !!
hope you get plenty of gigs
How’s it going Christy, hope you are well.
Our tribute gig at The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip was a 2 hour set with 29 songs and went fantastically well. Great crowd, singing along and cheering every song and shouting requests, which we fulfilled. Some of your hard-core fans gave us amazing feedback and were asking when we will returning.
On our travels we found ourselves 🎶 taking a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes Department Store 🎶
We had a pint in O’Rourkes in Newbridge and the barmaid told us some lovely stories of how you used to sing your songs in her house when she was a child. She also spoke about Luka Bloom and Donal Lunny.
We made contact with a number of venues to contact too !
All the very best to and good luck for your Vicar Street gigs !
Kind regards
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
Christy's reply
happy to read that ye leaped in Leixlip…
do you have a set list to share ?
Done Christy…
He sounds like a bloody good bloke – decent & fair dinkum & for the people..
– I’m keen to hear your new set of choons too
Keep on Mr Moore
Lotsa nice thoughts
Danny Harris
Christy hi. Paul Maher from the Naas road. I sure you dont remember but we messaged you a while back about paddy Duffy and Frank Keane and your dad. My son Rory is coming home from Rochester ny to pick up his Illen pipes from a maker in rathcoole. He would love to meet or catch a gig. He’s 23. Sorry for the asking but you wouldn’t have any tickets in reserve for the Dundalk show. Either way I hope you keep your health up, we are all so proud that you’re a newbridge man and up the sash. Paul Maher
How do C Emmers…
A stubborn cold snap teases our spring as I pore over the goin’ ons here..
Gigs aplenty it seems? Lucky buggers – I’m with ye in spirit/s
Rumours of a new album too I note
Reminds me ..I’d better spin a CM track or 2 on my community radio show next Tues
Any requests? First in best dressed (and no, that’s not a song title..)
Wishing good things for yez all
Best regards Christy & co
Danny Harris – here
Christy's reply
Might you consider “Music To Our Ears”….the latest track is a tribute to our soon-to-depart President , Michael D. O’Higgins.
After 14 years in The Park Michael and Sabina are about to return home to Galway.
Johnny b penned the verse and I recorded it with Gavin Murphy in Prosperous,Co Kildare.
It will be included on an extended version of last years album “A Terrible Beauty” but has already been released to airplay.
Hope you are all enjoying the lengthening evenings up there in Terra Australis Incognito
Years of happiness we got from you through your music and friendship.80 is only a number a privilage denied to many.looking forward to seeing you soon.
Noeleen and Seanie
great to hear from you two…has me thinking..we first met in Kate Reillys Kitchen..thats a good while back..used to be a crackin venue back in the 80s/90s…I recall the booker was called Ronnie..I remembered him earlier years when he played with Jimmy Dunny’s Orchestra in Newbridge…are you still giggin Seanie ?…tell us a bit about whats happening down Coolnacupogue way…
heres a note I got from my Buddy in Boston about “Two island Swans”..I know you always call it out when I’m playing in Waterford
Hello Christy Ihope you can open this video let me know if it works or I will get it to you another way its from Corky Laing the last surviving member of mountain I am involved in a venue here on the Cape where we bring in local regional national and international touring bands but we had Corky in the other week but a few weeks back we were talking on the phone and I was telling him about you doing One Last Cold Kiss since the 70s so I sent him a video of yourself and Declan doing the song I think from the Point anyway it really touched him he told the story of Felix Pappalardi and his wife writing the song as love song about each other and as you know tragically his wife shot him dead but in all the years they never played it live until the other week he did it with the band for the first time and it was special anyway enjoy it .
Yes , great to see and read another Chat from your good self… a nice insight to the latest happenings in the world of your music , song and more besides
You are always most generous in telling us how much it means to you to have played and continue to play with other special artists… and to still hope to get together with Donal again….now that will be special.
As far as I can see there is only one candidate to follow our President in the true spirit of Michael D., and I’m glad to see you endorsing Catherine Connolly.
We look forward to getting back to a gig soon…. it’s been a busy few months for us but the gigs keep calling us.
Thanks Marty & Ger
Hi Christy,
Thanks for a wonderful “Chat”, told in plain language and straight from the Heart. Really looking forward to the Expo in the ITMA, and the TG4 documentary. Will the chats be included in the ITMA exhibition ? They are very much part of the story throughout the years. Long may the gigs continue, each one is special and so much appreciated by everyone. Each one unique too, whether it is the spontaneous heckler, the new young listener, the long haul traveller, us oldies, or a song reappearing out of the Blue, all making for a really special experience.
Best Regards,
Ride on
Patsy
I’ll suggest that to those working on the archive
Hello Chrisy
Any chance of a gig in portlaoise anytime soon…..
GRMMA don Chat nua C. It’s always great to hear about the gigs and stuff from your side of the lamps. Thanks for all the joy and fun you spread, I appreciate it all. On a serious note as we face into the Presidential Election which , I feel will be a defining one, with left , centre and right wing candidates thank you for nailing your colours to the mast. I am hopeful. Beir bua agus beannacht go deo. H
Yes H..I have been more than happy to support Catherine Connolly, a most fitting candidate to enter Árus and Uachtaráin… over many years Catherine has consistently established herself as a tireless and selfless campaigner for Human Rights, Peoples Rights, for a fair and just society for her constituency…
How ya Christy!
Back home in Salisbury now.
We are going to be working on songs from A Terrible Beauty. We have Boy In The Wild in our library already!
It’s great fans have been quizzing over the 3 songs you mentioned.
Kind regards,
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
back on the Plain, job well done
Re-selling some tickets for 9th November in Vicar Street on ticketmaster as friends are unable to make it now. Just incase anyone is interested.
Dearest Christy,
I am not giving up on seeing you for the first damn time when I visit Ireland in November…for the first darn time. I reviewed The Voyage long long ago for CMJ Radio Journal and have been a fan ever since.
Tickets were gone by the time they were released here….here’s hoping you’ll announce some extras.
Love from New York, where we know the truth about the amadán “in charge!”
hope it all works out
Hello Christy
All My backs are packed,I’m ready to go…leaving on a jet plane…No idea why that song is in my head?
Hopefully the cyber attack at Brussels airport will be under control tomorrow so we can come over to Trim. This time I will bring my son Eli he likes an Ordinary man very much. It reminds him of his childhood,
Apparently I’ve played that song a lot.
Anyway glad to see you again whatever you will play.
Greetings Chris
wish you safe and trouble free travels….happy to be returning to Trim…its a good gig room…we’ll rattle the chandeliers
Is mór an onóir dom a plectrum seo a ghlacadh …
Oh my! Christy!
You’re the man to do it.
Let’s keep the amorous but faithful Lord Baker on his toes.
So glad to hear you’re enjoying it.
Sophia’s arrival in verse 18 brings an added dimension…I ‘ve been singing this song for 45 years not knowing her name…”Turkey’s daughter” never conjured up any alluring images ..also love “splinters three” and “Coach & Three”…earlier on the image of the oak tree in the prison yard is also welcome addition
Hi Christy,
Methinks …
Clock winds down
Arthur’s day
And So do I
don’t be featuring…
Enjoy the day and Thursday’s gig.
Bourkey
be the Lord Harry Bourkey you’re on the money..
thems the very 3…
methinks a spot prize might be in order…
I may have gigged “Arthur’s Day “a handful of times but it always died the death… but it had its job done
“Clock Winds Down” I gigged for a while..sometimes songs slip out of the reckoning without any decision being made…they simply slip quietly away…but they can just as easily come back into the reckoning…recently Smoke & Whiskey, Lawless, Ronnie Reagan have made welcome returns out of the blue
other songs get recorded and never make the transition to ballad lounge….China Waltz, Lost Tribe,Siren’s Voice, Lovely Young One, a few that never faced the lamps,
“So Do I” is such a beautiful song…but I feel it needs the magic riffs of Messrs Lunny & Sinnott…any time I play is solo here in the work room it feels incomplete
” I’ll cross the seven oceans,forever more I’ll wander”
busy here today…Yorkshire Becca posted a version of Lord Baker (Bateman) from a singer in Hull….it had some additional lines to John Reilly’s version…I’m about to sacreligiously introduce some yorkie lines into the rossie version …may sing them at the Frank Harte Festival this weekend….
Hello Christy,
Great setlist from More Christy.
3 in a row huh?
I’m going for
Go Move Shift
Farmer Michael Hayes
Where I Come From
How’s my wild stab in the dark?
Rebecca
all 3 have been on recent set lists
Good evening Christy we are looking forward to seeing you in Vicar street back on board best wishes on your 11 nights Helen n KK
we’re holding one back ..a special
I missed one
We also did Viva La Quinta in-between Joxer and The Contender
Kind regards
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
Adelante !
‘More Christy’ setlist 20th September, The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip:-
North And South
Wise And Holy Woman
Biko Drum
Spancil Hill
Go Move Shift
Farmer Michael Hayes
Where I Come From
Black Is The Colour
McIlhatton
A Pair Of Brown Eyes
Back Home In Derry
Burning Times
Missing You
Clock Winds Down
Arthur’s Day
So Do I
Sail On Jimmy
Joxer Goes To Stuttgart
Viva la Quinta Brigada
The Contender
Hiroshima Nagasaki
The Voyage
Johnny Jump Up
The Two Conneeleys
Delirium Tremens
Smoke And Strong Whiskey
Ride On
Sixteen Fishermen Raving
Honda 50
Lisdoonvarna (incl “Tell Me Ma”)
thats some set list Dave…
a 100% tribute…
all bar three have featured betimes in my own set lists across 2025..
those 3 are grouped together in your set
nothing from “A Terrible Beauty” yet !!
hope you get plenty of gigs
How’s it going Christy, hope you are well.
Our tribute gig at The Salmon Leap Inn, Leixlip was a 2 hour set with 29 songs and went fantastically well. Great crowd, singing along and cheering every song and shouting requests, which we fulfilled. Some of your hard-core fans gave us amazing feedback and were asking when we will returning.
On our travels we found ourselves 🎶 taking a walk down Henry Street to Dunnes Department Store 🎶
We had a pint in O’Rourkes in Newbridge and the barmaid told us some lovely stories of how you used to sing your songs in her house when she was a child. She also spoke about Luka Bloom and Donal Lunny.
We made contact with a number of venues to contact too !
All the very best to and good luck for your Vicar Street gigs !
Kind regards
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
happy to read that ye leaped in Leixlip…
do you have a set list to share ?
Done Christy…
He sounds like a bloody good bloke – decent & fair dinkum & for the people..
– I’m keen to hear your new set of choons too
Keep on Mr Moore
Lotsa nice thoughts
Danny Harris
whallup Haz
Christy hi. Paul Maher from the Naas road. I sure you dont remember but we messaged you a while back about paddy Duffy and Frank Keane and your dad. My son Rory is coming home from Rochester ny to pick up his Illen pipes from a maker in rathcoole. He would love to meet or catch a gig. He’s 23. Sorry for the asking but you wouldn’t have any tickets in reserve for the Dundalk show. Either way I hope you keep your health up, we are all so proud that you’re a newbridge man and up the sash. Paul Maher
sound Paul…I’ve dropped you a note….Up Moorefield
How do C Emmers…
A stubborn cold snap teases our spring as I pore over the goin’ ons here..
Gigs aplenty it seems? Lucky buggers – I’m with ye in spirit/s
Rumours of a new album too I note
Reminds me ..I’d better spin a CM track or 2 on my community radio show next Tues
Any requests? First in best dressed (and no, that’s not a song title..)
Wishing good things for yez all
Best regards Christy & co
Danny Harris – here
Might you consider “Music To Our Ears”….the latest track is a tribute to our soon-to-depart President , Michael D. O’Higgins.
After 14 years in The Park Michael and Sabina are about to return home to Galway.
Johnny b penned the verse and I recorded it with Gavin Murphy in Prosperous,Co Kildare.
It will be included on an extended version of last years album “A Terrible Beauty” but has already been released to airplay.
Hope you are all enjoying the lengthening evenings up there in Terra Australis Incognito