Hi Christy
Just watched your programme on TG4, and what can I say, your likes will never be seen again, one of a kind, excellent !
Good Luck and best wishes to you and Val in 2026,
Sam.
Christy's reply
theres rakes of youngsters coming along Sam
some of them only warming up
ours is a Living Tradition
Thanks Be
and thank You
How ya Christy!
Just watched you on the TG4 program. Fantastic, uplifting and emotional.
Love to hear you talk about the vast library of songs that you’ve sang over the years. The power of lyrics whether political, sad or funny is a wonderful and beautiful thing. This is why I chose to form ‘More Christy’ and tribute your good self. I hope that I am still able to sing and perform when I’m 80 … you are amazing !!
All the very best to you for 2026
Hope to see you soon,
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
Christy's reply
“Come Gather Round Me People
And A Story I Will Tell
About Pretty Boy Floyd The Outlaw
Oklahoma Knew Him Well”…………..( Woody Guthrie )
Well Christy . I said I’d write this early as you’ll be inundated after the programme on TG4 tonight- it’s brilliant- how generous of you to donate all your material for us to thumb through- so looking forward to it! I’m loving the Maton guitar- where did you get that- it’s a fabulous looking and sounding machine- you signed a Cats Eyes one for me in Chuck Feeneys hall one night- I treasure it. If you get a chance sometime give my son an ear – Sean O’Meara – album Notions Potions and Emotions!! Anyhow C I must take this program off pause or jays it will be 2026 before I know it!! Happy new year Christy. J
Christy's reply
I found that old weathered Atkin in Dublin
best instrument shop in Ireland
“Some Neck” in Francis St
pop into their website
or better still, into the shop
Happy new year Christy . I’m just sitting here watching the TG4 documentary with tears . My sis Thelma was one of the 48 .
Hope to see you again in HQ in 2026 . Legend ♥️
Des Frazer
Christy's reply
Thank You Des….
Thelma and Friends..
Always Remembered..
Hi. Sitting here, by the fire watching the 2025 Gradam Ceoil on TG4 such talent across the generations. I’m awaiting, along with so many others across the globe, the ITMA Docu in an hours time. At this time of the year as the days get longer I love to hear this poem it’s so hopeful https://youtu.be/IAPlhUaB3SA?si=zT6A8JH1Fc4dzoFN Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Ahh Jaysus! Mother Hubbards! The rasher samiches! I still think to this day, tea never tasted better than out of a polystyrene cup whilst on a Winter Road!
Just thinking Christy! Isn’t it amazing the way songs change over a lifetime! I remember first hearing “Little Mother” all those years ago and it not hitting the spot for me, totally disappeared off my radar
I put all the stuff onto digital a few years ago it started to re-appear on shuffle!
Now every time it appears, it gets me! The most perfect, shortest, complete, song of a beautifully lived life.
Perception beyond belief on your behalf as a young man! You can just sense it on that recording listening back! Here’s to Savage Rose!
Happy New Year All!
Christy's reply
1976…
I’m playing in Bergen,Norway,
a bit of a mouldy session after the gig…
“Little Mother” on someone’s turntable…
I learnt, covered and recorded it…
50 years pass
you are the first one to mention it..
Hi Christy,
All the best for the New Year, HEALTH, happiness and of course lots of Gigs.
Looks like they are coming from everywhere to the middle of the island next Sunday….Kerry, Donegal, Galway,Cavan.and all sorts of far-flung places. Great to have a home county Gig to kick off the season.
Alas no Mother Hubbard’s, Pat Mc’s Plasa is the next best thing.
Ride on.
Best Regards.
Patsy
Christy's reply
as I came to Mother Hubbards I saw a swarm of truckers
Hey Patsy this place don’t look too bad
in came a 40 foot lorry leakin lines of slurry
the King of The Road jumps down and sez to me
Hey John! sez he, I know your face
are you Tommy Tiernan or Brendan Grace
are you Pink or Twink or Lady Gaga Ga
sez he …..stall the digger sham
I never tire of watching this…. the music is sublime, the communication between the players so special,
three of them gone on ahead of us..the rest, still lashin it out…Thanks Be
Christy,
A year ago today my wife and I celebrated my 50th birthday by coming to see you play Vicar Street. It was a dream of mine to see you in Ireland for decades. (The last time I saw you before that was at the Guinness Fleadh on Randall’s island NYC in 1997–dreadful crowd if my memory serves me…).
I can’t thank you enough for the kindness and generosity you showed that night. I still think about it all the time and pinch myself. It still doesn’t seem real. Hoping that I’ll be able to cross the pond to see you again sometime soon.
Wishing you a New Year with peace and justice. Saoirse don Phalaistín
Andy Terranova, Long Beach, CA
Christy's reply
Andy,
Lovely to get the bit of feedback from Terranova
lets all do the best we can
every little bit helps
Looking forward to the documentary …
Cartlann Christy Moore – premiere on TG4 at 22:10 on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2025.
Be a perfect farewell and adieu to the year !
Happy 26 up the 4711ers.
Love Baz x
Christy's reply
Morra Baz
Lets all give Auld Lang Sine a good rattle
Eamon did sing it and I still do. A song which fits today as well as 60 yea s ago. And Mrs McGrath for all the mums hose suns and daughters are now dead or scarred for life.I also sing My bonny light horseman, Dolores keane’s version. So many songs that show how so many powerful folks never learn.
Christy's reply
Brady on The Bones
Clinch on The Spoons
The Boys batin it out behind them
Christy
With my 3yo grandson Connall we saw a kingfisher yesterday, the first i have seen in 50 years since with my granny. Such beauty.
We spent a restless night , him comfy and squiggling me waiting for john o’ dreams with feet in my face. The absolute Joy.
Rory
Ps a great song, love the imperfection of it on the box set
Christy's reply
what a sight to see
you & Conall
the sheer pleasure
of it all….
I’m away at New Year,may have dodgy internet,so am a bit early with greetings for a good 2026.
Thanks for a fab 2025 here…it’s a lovely place to hang out I hope that those of us with no other options than a UK passport,do our best to show nuanced cop on…we can but try…and we have a perfect forum,thankfully.
Let the music keep our spirits high and may the spirit of Woody ride on
All good wishes
Dave
Christy's reply
1966…
bed sit in Fallowfield
2 x 20 min sets in Blakeley
(nr the Icky works)
Spainish Lady,
Little Beggarman
Take it down from The Mast
Curragh of Kildare
Mary From Dungloe
Enniskillen Dragoon
Where O James Connolly
Carnloch Bay
Galtee Mountain Boy
Lanigan’s Ball
Just about knockin it out
getting a foot in door
Me & me Parka Jacket
bus to Victoria Ave
Tony Downes playin in St Clare’s
Plane Crash at Los Gatos
Hi Christy,
I love America for all it has given us in science, art, music
and literature. I love America, but not all of what goes on
in it. Or what it does out of it … and the bullets read USA.
I love America for helping The Red Army
defeat the nazis towards the end of WW2.
I love the USA but cannot forget it was founded on
the genocide of The Native American, the enslavement
of Africans, and the indentured servitude of Asian and
European immigrants. I love America but Jaysus lads your
hamburgers are shite. Here’s hoping for a happy 2026
for you and all fellow guestbookers. You’ve made a good
space here for us all.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
I
Christy's reply
I long for you Dakota
Smell of sweet grass on the plain
I see too much meaness
I feel too much pain………..(Floyd Red Crow, Sisseton, Dakota)
Some of us here may not give Britain too much credit considering THEIR lack of education…..but Steven M. Certainly didn’t lack knowledge of his chosen subject.
Hope Don Langes Allende gets listened to as well.
Meanwhile , another year beckons and the gig list continues to call us …. Mullingar first up…. gonna face the toyota southwards and hope for a great kick-off to the tour de 26….
Happy New Year to all.
Christy's reply
Nigel Farage could change all that..Tommy Robinson Minister for Education
Morning Christ I learned Crow on the Cradle in the 60s and still sing it along with Blowing in the Wind and where have all the flowers gone. I sing Standing in the rain every Christmas and the whole world knows Lord of the dance. S C hated hypocrisy and it comes into many of his songs. The dangers of war aren’t far behind – I wish I had alittle bomb like you etc. Songs often have different interpretations depending on who is singing and where it is sung. But Sidney Carter’s songs are more relevant than ever. Keep up your work pointing out the hypocrisy and the hypocrits who hide behind it. And Johny I Hardly new yer is still the best anti-war song going.
Have a good New Year
Terry
Christy's reply
Wishing you well Terry
Ian Cambell’s ” Old Man Song” up there too
Did Eamon sing that in The Beggarmen ?
Re: Your song America —- Hamburgers don’t win wars, run satellites, don’t navigate aircraft, don’t explore the deep ocean — and they certainly don’t save lives!
I’m happy to give Britain full credit where it’s due — there’s a long and serious history of discovery, courage, and endurance. But the claim that the United States has contributed nothing to the world beyond fast food doesn’t survive even light contact with history, science, or modern infrastructure.
World War I
Britain and France bore the overwhelming human cost of World War I from 1914 to 1917, and that sacrifice matters. But by the time the United States entered the war, the Allies were exhausted economically and militarily, and Germany was gambling on one final offensive. The arrival of millions of American troops — backed by U.S. industry, money, and logistics — changed the math completely. The war didn’t end because the Allies were merely holding on; it ended because American involvement made a German victory no longer plausible.
World War II
Britain stood alone in 1940 and prevented Hitler from winning the war outright, and that deserves real respect. But survival is not the same thing as victory. Defeating Nazi Germany required industrial output, global logistics, financial support, and manpower on a scale no other country could provide. From keeping Britain supplied through Lend-Lease to opening multiple fronts and sustaining a total war economy, the United States made it possible not just to resist Nazi domination, but to end it.
**So sure — America gave the world the hamburger but you are not being honest when you ignore that it also gave the world:
Medicine & Public Health
• Mass production of penicillin (discovered in the UK, industrialized by the U.S.)
• Polio vaccines (Salk & Sabin), leading to near-global eradication
• Modern surgical anesthesia
• Open-heart surgery and heart–lung bypass
• Organ transplantation protocols
• Emergency medicine as a formal specialty
• Modern trauma and triage systems
Computing, Information & Networks
• The Internet (ARPANET)
• TCP/IP networking protocols
• Personal computing
• Semiconductors and microchips
• Modern software platforms and operating systems
• Satellites, Space & Navigation
• GPS (freely provided to the world)
• Communications satellites
• Satellite television
• Weather satellites
• Human spaceflight and the Moon landing
Aviation & Transportation
• Powered flight (practical airplanes)
• Commercial aviation systems and air-traffic infrastructure
• Imaging, Cameras & Extreme Environments
• Digital imaging at scale (medical, satellite, scientific)
• Deep-sea submersibles and remotely operated vehicles
• Titanic deep-sea imaging using U.S.-developed camera systems
Systems, Scale & Infrastructure
• The assembly line and modern mass production
• Global logistics and supply-chain systems
• The research-university and grant-funding model
• Technical standards and interoperability frameworks
So tell me — do you want fries with that?
Christy's reply
When I heard Steven sing it years back I thought I’d give it a go….its a great old song…seems to have perked you up no end…I’d love to have written it myself…I have neither the knowledge ,time or education to anal eyes your list of achievements …you remind me of a great song, you might give it a listen..”The Crow in The Cradle” by Sidney Carter….I used to sing it in “The Early Grave Band” which toured Ireland in 1978 in opposition to Westinghouse…
Might you be a Kerry or a Kildare Kenneally …..poets,footballers and station masters…the best of people
it must be acknowledged…..ye have made great progress since we all gathered there a few centuries back….shame about the (ongoing) genocide
Hi Christy
Just watched your programme on TG4, and what can I say, your likes will never be seen again, one of a kind, excellent !
Good Luck and best wishes to you and Val in 2026,
Sam.
theres rakes of youngsters coming along Sam
some of them only warming up
ours is a Living Tradition
Thanks Be
and thank You
How ya Christy!
Just watched you on the TG4 program. Fantastic, uplifting and emotional.
Love to hear you talk about the vast library of songs that you’ve sang over the years. The power of lyrics whether political, sad or funny is a wonderful and beautiful thing. This is why I chose to form ‘More Christy’ and tribute your good self. I hope that I am still able to sing and perform when I’m 80 … you are amazing !!
All the very best to you for 2026
Hope to see you soon,
Dave and Giles (More Christy)
“Come Gather Round Me People
And A Story I Will Tell
About Pretty Boy Floyd The Outlaw
Oklahoma Knew Him Well”…………..( Woody Guthrie )
Sorry Christy my son Sean corrected me there – it’s an Atkin Guitar? I need to go to specsavers!! Lovely tone from it!!
Good Man Sean
on the ball
Well Christy . I said I’d write this early as you’ll be inundated after the programme on TG4 tonight- it’s brilliant- how generous of you to donate all your material for us to thumb through- so looking forward to it! I’m loving the Maton guitar- where did you get that- it’s a fabulous looking and sounding machine- you signed a Cats Eyes one for me in Chuck Feeneys hall one night- I treasure it. If you get a chance sometime give my son an ear – Sean O’Meara – album Notions Potions and Emotions!! Anyhow C I must take this program off pause or jays it will be 2026 before I know it!! Happy new year Christy. J
I found that old weathered Atkin in Dublin
best instrument shop in Ireland
“Some Neck” in Francis St
pop into their website
or better still, into the shop
Happy new year Christy . I’m just sitting here watching the TG4 documentary with tears . My sis Thelma was one of the 48 .
Hope to see you again in HQ in 2026 . Legend ♥️
Des Frazer
Thank You Des….
Thelma and Friends..
Always Remembered..
Hi. Sitting here, by the fire watching the 2025 Gradam Ceoil on TG4 such talent across the generations. I’m awaiting, along with so many others across the globe, the ITMA Docu in an hours time. At this time of the year as the days get longer I love to hear this poem it’s so hopeful https://youtu.be/IAPlhUaB3SA?si=zT6A8JH1Fc4dzoFN Beir bua agus beannacht. H
TG4 Rules Our Roost
Ahh Jaysus! Mother Hubbards! The rasher samiches! I still think to this day, tea never tasted better than out of a polystyrene cup whilst on a Winter Road!
Just thinking Christy! Isn’t it amazing the way songs change over a lifetime! I remember first hearing “Little Mother” all those years ago and it not hitting the spot for me, totally disappeared off my radar
I put all the stuff onto digital a few years ago it started to re-appear on shuffle!
Now every time it appears, it gets me! The most perfect, shortest, complete, song of a beautifully lived life.
Perception beyond belief on your behalf as a young man! You can just sense it on that recording listening back! Here’s to Savage Rose!
Happy New Year All!
1976…
I’m playing in Bergen,Norway,
a bit of a mouldy session after the gig…
“Little Mother” on someone’s turntable…
I learnt, covered and recorded it…
50 years pass
you are the first one to mention it..
“Hey Mr. Postman
Whats in your bag?”
Hi Christy,
All the best for the New Year, HEALTH, happiness and of course lots of Gigs.
Looks like they are coming from everywhere to the middle of the island next Sunday….Kerry, Donegal, Galway,Cavan.and all sorts of far-flung places. Great to have a home county Gig to kick off the season.
Alas no Mother Hubbard’s, Pat Mc’s Plasa is the next best thing.
Ride on.
Best Regards.
Patsy
as I came to Mother Hubbards I saw a swarm of truckers
Hey Patsy this place don’t look too bad
in came a 40 foot lorry leakin lines of slurry
the King of The Road jumps down and sez to me
Hey John! sez he, I know your face
are you Tommy Tiernan or Brendan Grace
are you Pink or Twink or Lady Gaga Ga
sez he …..stall the digger sham
Hello Christy,
Here’s a dream for everyone here, as we come to the end of 2025. I’ve posted it before, its worth is uncountable.
https://youtu.be/WLoAqCIS22o?si=GOAxy0bHy6cqa0ga
Rebecca
I never tire of watching this…. the music is sublime, the communication between the players so special,
three of them gone on ahead of us..the rest, still lashin it out…Thanks Be
Christy,
A year ago today my wife and I celebrated my 50th birthday by coming to see you play Vicar Street. It was a dream of mine to see you in Ireland for decades. (The last time I saw you before that was at the Guinness Fleadh on Randall’s island NYC in 1997–dreadful crowd if my memory serves me…).
I can’t thank you enough for the kindness and generosity you showed that night. I still think about it all the time and pinch myself. It still doesn’t seem real. Hoping that I’ll be able to cross the pond to see you again sometime soon.
Wishing you a New Year with peace and justice. Saoirse don Phalaistín
Andy Terranova, Long Beach, CA
Andy,
Lovely to get the bit of feedback from Terranova
lets all do the best we can
every little bit helps
Hi Christy ,
Looking forward to the documentary …
Cartlann Christy Moore – premiere on TG4 at 22:10 on New Year’s Eve, December 31st, 2025.
Be a perfect farewell and adieu to the year !
Happy 26 up the 4711ers.
Love Baz x
Morra Baz
Lets all give Auld Lang Sine a good rattle
Eamon did sing it and I still do. A song which fits today as well as 60 yea s ago. And Mrs McGrath for all the mums hose suns and daughters are now dead or scarred for life.I also sing My bonny light horseman, Dolores keane’s version. So many songs that show how so many powerful folks never learn.
Brady on The Bones
Clinch on The Spoons
The Boys batin it out behind them
Christy
With my 3yo grandson Connall we saw a kingfisher yesterday, the first i have seen in 50 years since with my granny. Such beauty.
We spent a restless night , him comfy and squiggling me waiting for john o’ dreams with feet in my face. The absolute Joy.
Rory
Ps a great song, love the imperfection of it on the box set
what a sight to see
you & Conall
the sheer pleasure
of it all….
“America, you gave us the.. (whole buckin’ lot it seems)..”
I’m with Marty, load up on green and make sure the spare wheel is pumped..
Aye-dil-dee-dum-doo…
here it comes,
another year of it..
will we ever get through it
god only knows
what the cats gonna bring in
Hi Christy/all
I’m away at New Year,may have dodgy internet,so am a bit early with greetings for a good 2026.
Thanks for a fab 2025 here…it’s a lovely place to hang out I hope that those of us with no other options than a UK passport,do our best to show nuanced cop on…we can but try…and we have a perfect forum,thankfully.
Let the music keep our spirits high and may the spirit of Woody ride on
All good wishes
Dave
1966…
bed sit in Fallowfield
2 x 20 min sets in Blakeley
(nr the Icky works)
Spainish Lady,
Little Beggarman
Take it down from The Mast
Curragh of Kildare
Mary From Dungloe
Enniskillen Dragoon
Where O James Connolly
Carnloch Bay
Galtee Mountain Boy
Lanigan’s Ball
Just about knockin it out
getting a foot in door
Me & me Parka Jacket
bus to Victoria Ave
Tony Downes playin in St Clare’s
Plane Crash at Los Gatos
Hi Christy,
I love America for all it has given us in science, art, music
and literature. I love America, but not all of what goes on
in it. Or what it does out of it … and the bullets read USA.
I love America for helping The Red Army
defeat the nazis towards the end of WW2.
I love the USA but cannot forget it was founded on
the genocide of The Native American, the enslavement
of Africans, and the indentured servitude of Asian and
European immigrants. I love America but Jaysus lads your
hamburgers are shite. Here’s hoping for a happy 2026
for you and all fellow guestbookers. You’ve made a good
space here for us all.
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
I
I long for you Dakota
Smell of sweet grass on the plain
I see too much meaness
I feel too much pain………..(Floyd Red Crow, Sisseton, Dakota)
Some of us here may not give Britain too much credit considering THEIR lack of education…..but Steven M. Certainly didn’t lack knowledge of his chosen subject.
Hope Don Langes Allende gets listened to as well.
Meanwhile , another year beckons and the gig list continues to call us …. Mullingar first up…. gonna face the toyota southwards and hope for a great kick-off to the tour de 26….
Happy New Year to all.
Nigel Farage could change all that..Tommy Robinson Minister for Education
Morning Christ I learned Crow on the Cradle in the 60s and still sing it along with Blowing in the Wind and where have all the flowers gone. I sing Standing in the rain every Christmas and the whole world knows Lord of the dance. S C hated hypocrisy and it comes into many of his songs. The dangers of war aren’t far behind – I wish I had alittle bomb like you etc. Songs often have different interpretations depending on who is singing and where it is sung. But Sidney Carter’s songs are more relevant than ever. Keep up your work pointing out the hypocrisy and the hypocrits who hide behind it. And Johny I Hardly new yer is still the best anti-war song going.
Have a good New Year
Terry
Wishing you well Terry
Ian Cambell’s ” Old Man Song” up there too
Did Eamon sing that in The Beggarmen ?
Hello Christy,
There’s a lot to be said for a good hamburger but, if pressed for a favourite, I’d be going for a nice fat egg mayo baguette.
https://youtu.be/VBdywzKD2Jw?si=FnaAeBmfG3z_KkZy
Rebecca
great version…
Re: Your song America —- Hamburgers don’t win wars, run satellites, don’t navigate aircraft, don’t explore the deep ocean — and they certainly don’t save lives!
I’m happy to give Britain full credit where it’s due — there’s a long and serious history of discovery, courage, and endurance. But the claim that the United States has contributed nothing to the world beyond fast food doesn’t survive even light contact with history, science, or modern infrastructure.
World War I
Britain and France bore the overwhelming human cost of World War I from 1914 to 1917, and that sacrifice matters. But by the time the United States entered the war, the Allies were exhausted economically and militarily, and Germany was gambling on one final offensive. The arrival of millions of American troops — backed by U.S. industry, money, and logistics — changed the math completely. The war didn’t end because the Allies were merely holding on; it ended because American involvement made a German victory no longer plausible.
World War II
Britain stood alone in 1940 and prevented Hitler from winning the war outright, and that deserves real respect. But survival is not the same thing as victory. Defeating Nazi Germany required industrial output, global logistics, financial support, and manpower on a scale no other country could provide. From keeping Britain supplied through Lend-Lease to opening multiple fronts and sustaining a total war economy, the United States made it possible not just to resist Nazi domination, but to end it.
**So sure — America gave the world the hamburger but you are not being honest when you ignore that it also gave the world:
Medicine & Public Health
• Mass production of penicillin (discovered in the UK, industrialized by the U.S.)
• Polio vaccines (Salk & Sabin), leading to near-global eradication
• Modern surgical anesthesia
• Open-heart surgery and heart–lung bypass
• Organ transplantation protocols
• Emergency medicine as a formal specialty
• Modern trauma and triage systems
Computing, Information & Networks
• The Internet (ARPANET)
• TCP/IP networking protocols
• Personal computing
• Semiconductors and microchips
• Modern software platforms and operating systems
• Satellites, Space & Navigation
• GPS (freely provided to the world)
• Communications satellites
• Satellite television
• Weather satellites
• Human spaceflight and the Moon landing
Aviation & Transportation
• Powered flight (practical airplanes)
• Commercial aviation systems and air-traffic infrastructure
• Imaging, Cameras & Extreme Environments
• Digital imaging at scale (medical, satellite, scientific)
• Deep-sea submersibles and remotely operated vehicles
• Titanic deep-sea imaging using U.S.-developed camera systems
Systems, Scale & Infrastructure
• The assembly line and modern mass production
• Global logistics and supply-chain systems
• The research-university and grant-funding model
• Technical standards and interoperability frameworks
So tell me — do you want fries with that?
When I heard Steven sing it years back I thought I’d give it a go….its a great old song…seems to have perked you up no end…I’d love to have written it myself…I have neither the knowledge ,time or education to anal eyes your list of achievements …you remind me of a great song, you might give it a listen..”The Crow in The Cradle” by Sidney Carter….I used to sing it in “The Early Grave Band” which toured Ireland in 1978 in opposition to Westinghouse…
Might you be a Kerry or a Kildare Kenneally …..poets,footballers and station masters…the best of people
it must be acknowledged…..ye have made great progress since we all gathered there a few centuries back….shame about the (ongoing) genocide