Hello Christy, Ryan Ward here again from Newfoundland! Last time I wrote you I was headed to the banks of the Lee to see you play for my second time, you again played Sonnys Dream for me as you did the first show I attended in LetterKenny! I raved so much about your shows and the whole experience so much my sister and her husband have headed across the pond to see your show tomorrow night in Galway! If you have any request space left Id love to surprise them with a shout out and a song! Perhaps the Voyage! As its one of her favorites and it sums up there life and family perfectly! They are the “Sullivans”from the irish heart of Newfoundland! Im sure your show will make a memory for them to last a lifetime like your shows have for me!!
I hope you’re doing well! And hope to be back over myself soon to see you again! Take care and keep er going!! Whallup!!!!
Dear Christy,
I’ve been listening to your music for many years now, and I wanted to take a moment to tell you what it has meant to me, and how you are at the centre of some very meaningful connections in my life.
Your songs have been a constant companion and warm hug – bringing joy and adding depth to everyday moments – and I know I’m far from alone in that. So many of us carry your music with us like a gift we never have to give back. Of note, for me, The Voyage, is my parent’s story of their voyage from Ireland to Australia then to Canada with us 3 kids as their crew.
I’m writing from Canada, with Irish roots that run deep, and your music has become something of a bridge for me – a way of staying connected to Ireland, to a heritage that matters enormously to me even from across the ocean.
I travel often to Ireland to visit family and for various GAA meetings as I’m very involved volunteering in that association. Every trip over I check your tour schedule to see if timing lines up and if tickets are available (but of course your shows are always sold out). I had the great privilege of attending your shows in Mullingar (February 2024 – thanks for the kind shout out) and Dundalk (October 2025). Thank you for your amazing performances on those nights. Definitely checked off a bucket list item those nights!!
And this is where you being the centre of meaningful connections for me comes in. Leading up to your Mullingar show, I reached out to my friend Jason (GAA connection) inquiring about tickets, and little did I know he is Patsy’s nephew. Jason kindly connected me with Patsy who then introduced me to Hilary, and I struck up a friendship with them. Hilary and I are in touch since then. Fast forward to April this year and Hilary reached out to let me know the HSP booked their first tour to Canada and asked if I’d help spread the word. And happy to help I was. Hilary connected me with Kevin and among other things I shared contacts for future Vancouver shows and I’m helping to promote Toronto gig through the Toronto GAA community. And what makes this connection even more meaningful is that Kevin and HSP have invited my son Ryan to be their supporting act for their Toronto show. What an unexpected and unbelievable opportunity they have given to Ryan to join HSP. And this opportunity for him all stems from a connection to you. Ryan has loved your music for so many years and plays your songs often. And through my love of your music which lead to my friendship with Hilary, opportunity has been created for Ryan, the next generation of musicians.
Thank you for the honesty in your songwriting, for the years of hard work behind it, and for the way your music connects us all, and builds community around the world. It really has been a gift to me and my family. And thank you to Hilary and Patsy for their friendship.
Hi C so it’s Culture Night tomorrow night as we all know as this stage, I said I ‘d look up the official description ” Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of Culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement ”
The night ” celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day. ” Well what an apt description of your gigs ? thankfully you do this most weeks, nearly all year round and all around Ireland. Safe travelling, beir bua agus beannacht. H
Hi Christy,
Hope alls going well in the workroom
or wherever you’re at it. It was a magic night
you gave us last Friday in The Hanger.
And we’re looking forward to tomorrow night.
Safe travels a chara.
Bourkey
Dear Christy I hope you are well. It’s a 100 days to Christmas.
I’m feeling somewhat bad for the poor man Sheeran. I am torn between what drives the fellow, entertainment and pleasant songs to billions of people but I also feel that he has left a poor legacy for his children when they ask what side of history he stood on. What I do know is that the self styled ‘cultural irishman’ must have hit rock bottom and be feeling quite alone.
I saw Beoga in London a few years ago they opened for Damo and they were brilliant! It all spins on a coin. Keep well x
Myself and my son just watched Cartlann Christy Moore . We are delighted to know you are Archiving your life and hope to visit soon.
Can I ask as I watched how you spoke about your mom and how she taught you pronunciation when singing and to listen to the lyric of a song and how to remember the less fortunate , what do you believe she would have hoped for you in later life ?
My son is 15 and has been listening to you forever . He learned guitar and loves the older songs like Johnny jump up and cliff of Doneen .my favourite is beeswing.
Thank you
Christy's reply
Its been a great journey, working with the Irish trad music archive….Its been a learning process and I’ve made many new friends,….
I brought boxes, bags, drawers full of ephemera, copybooks, journals, notes, cards letters, posters etc etc…..with their skill and love of music/song they put a shape on everything…I’ve seen a few examples of what they have created and I look forward to seeing it all next month when the archive will be exhibited…
thankfully the work continues, still finding songs to sing, trying to write new verses, revive some old ones and , best of all, listeners still gather to hear them performed
great to read that your Son is listening, learning, playing and singing…our tradition thus preserved, its future guaranteed…
Just got home from Ireland. Me and my girlfriend went to see your show in Galway and you did not disappoint! We both loved it and it was definately worth the travel! Also gave me the chance to check all the record stores I could find in Galway and Limerick to find some records of you, as it’s not that easy to find in Norway! Arriving home with 4 new Christy moore LP’s and great memories! Thank you again for all that you do and the great music you have given and continue to give!
Atleast now you know you have fans in their twenties all the way over in Norway!
Christy's reply
Thank you….having travelled so far, I’m happy to read that you had a good visit….
I played once in Norway…back in 1977 I did 2 gigs in Bergen….
I was drinking heavily…..I did not play well…I still regret that….
greetings to all Norwegian songsters…
Hi. Shane will surely give a blast of Honda 50 tonight !! What a win, what a buzz, some week for Irish sport, to add to the mighty gig in Gallimh…beir bua agus beannacht !! H
Christy's reply
well done Shane…
glad to see the back of those feckin Chinooks…
they give me the willies….
Hello Christy, Just driving up to Malahide for a last night before crossing the waves.
It’s just reappeared in my head. Your singing of The two Conneellys. That verse in Irish was stunning. I feel so lucky to have heard you singing it live. Thankyou! 💚
Rebecca
Christy's reply
I harbour sorrow over the loss of my Native tongue
my wee verse ,”as Gaeilge”, but a small token in a life of singing and writing “as Béarla”
in my early teens I had reasonable fluency in Irish but I soon lapsed into the Ballads and Folksongs written in a foreign language..
That said,I’ve cherished each and every song that has come my way
Yet betimes, I feel that sense of loss…. when I hear the likes of Eoghan Ó Ceannabháín, Seosamh Ó hÉanaigh,The Begley Family singing so beautifully “as Gaeilge” I marvel and wonder at the beauty and flow of their songs…
that said, I had the greatest of times singing in a thousand English and Scottish Folk Clubs…and later travelling the world singing songs in English…
Today we have a great Irish language revivial in our midst….
Just to say what a great night my self and my wife had last night in Leisureland. You’re in great voice as was the audience. We were close enough to you to give you a wee prompt on Lawless! That mic gives you great freedom on stage. Fair play and long may you continue.
Christy's reply
thats the kinda talk we like to hear here…muchos gracias to Mr & Mrs Hopper…
and yes, that mic has been an adventurous innovation…allowing me to move hither and thither without a bother in the world….I’ve been practicin a few Flatley moves here on the mirror…but the chiropractor threatened to resign and my spiritual advisor suggested I cop myself on and start actin my age…feckin spoil sports the pair of ’em…
How ya Christy thank you for a wonderful gig last night I loveed the set some gems appeared Tippin it up to Nancy Lawless,the Galtee mountain boy togged Farmer Michael Hayes broke new ground all in all a fantastic night and a pleasure to be there to you and the crew fair play
Face the puck out
Christy's reply
great to see the Bullaun crew last night…sounding good and pulling first time
Hello Christy,
Im glad they filled a corner, as we say in these parts
So many different songs last night.
Im agreeing with you wholeheartedly about Lawless. Removing the one word, you’ve turned him from a victim into a person.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
Mick Curry’s song is such a fine ballad
its very fitting that it is now in the Irish Traditional Music Archive
so much imagery running thru his lines
that last verse is a heartbreaker
the second last verse leaves an unsolvable mystery
Mick assured me that “Lawless” is a work of complete fiction…
Based on many diverse characters and situations he encountered growing up in and around Raytown….
(Mick was a good buddy of the late Barney Rush)
Ironically, I’ve encountered many who claim to have known Lawless, …..let us leave them at it
Hi Christy,
Hope you got home safely through the downpours. Brilliant night in Galway, you set the tone with your opening of “How Long”. Hopefully the weather will keep him indoors for the weekend. Loved “Tipping it up to Nancy “ with the Bodhran. Great to meet all our 4711er friends from near and far.
Best regards.
Ride on
Patsy
Christy's reply
its such a different journey in these hasty times…
how we’ve all been induced to rush everywhere,
tearing around like blue arsed flies
Chapelizod, Palmerstown, Lucan, Leixlip, Maynooth, Kilcock, Mother Hubbards,left & Kinnegad,Kilbeggan, all that and we were still only half way to Moate
changing gears, rolling windows up and down, puttin out the willie winkers,handbrake turns, double clutches, green shield stamps,
But here we are Patsy, still making the best of it all…Thanks Be
Sad day always on this date, thinking of Mary and John Heffernan. Natalie Merchant wrote a bone chilling song about September 11 and every time I hear Christy sing it, my eyes well up with tears. But 25 years does not dim the memories. I have discussed what I felt that day with friends and family, but as tragic that this day was there are present day policies that trigger memories of the pile. I look at the inhumane treatment of the people of Gaza and the landscape of destruction. Englands starvation of the Irish is wrong, German genocide of the Jews is wrong, fanatics flying planes into buildings is wrong, but people of different cultures as a whole are not evil. The policymakers that control spin are the real evil. Hopefully the world for our Grandchildren will be a better place. God Bless Christy and as soon as they process my Irish Citizenship I’ll be back for a visit, hopefully up north in a United Ireland.- Danny McGlinchey
Christy's reply
It landed here yesterday
creating havoc wherever it goes
Listening to the news about this weekend’s arrivals reminded me of Hey Ronnie Reagan so i dug out the boxset to give it a whirl. Such a gem of a collection – that must have been a special time, pulling all the decades of material together and distilling it down to the final track selections. I remember that time now over 20 years ago listening intently to it all and discovering new gems from the archive. It still brings joy. A reverie of sorts. Hope you enjoyed the Galway gig. Give her the crack and up she goes. X
Christy's reply
it was indeed a special time….Michael Traynor laid the foundation, he gathered all the ephemera into a hundred CDs ….we then reduced them down to the 6 cds in the collection ( we were not always in agreement ) I spent many days and nights with Robyn Robins in Enniskillen ….seeking a flow to the disparate sounds, creating some sort of running order….then, with my nephew Turlough Rynne, we created the colour coding for the 6 sides and I write the sleeve notes….Columbia records did a great job releasing and distributing the “Box Set 1964-2004 ” which went on to be very well recieved….
Always a joy when its referenced…best to you Rossie
Hello Christy, Ryan Ward here again from Newfoundland! Last time I wrote you I was headed to the banks of the Lee to see you play for my second time, you again played Sonnys Dream for me as you did the first show I attended in LetterKenny! I raved so much about your shows and the whole experience so much my sister and her husband have headed across the pond to see your show tomorrow night in Galway! If you have any request space left Id love to surprise them with a shout out and a song! Perhaps the Voyage! As its one of her favorites and it sums up there life and family perfectly! They are the “Sullivans”from the irish heart of Newfoundland! Im sure your show will make a memory for them to last a lifetime like your shows have for me!!
I hope you’re doing well! And hope to be back over myself soon to see you again! Take care and keep er going!! Whallup!!!!
Dear Christy,
I’ve been listening to your music for many years now, and I wanted to take a moment to tell you what it has meant to me, and how you are at the centre of some very meaningful connections in my life.
Your songs have been a constant companion and warm hug – bringing joy and adding depth to everyday moments – and I know I’m far from alone in that. So many of us carry your music with us like a gift we never have to give back. Of note, for me, The Voyage, is my parent’s story of their voyage from Ireland to Australia then to Canada with us 3 kids as their crew.
I’m writing from Canada, with Irish roots that run deep, and your music has become something of a bridge for me – a way of staying connected to Ireland, to a heritage that matters enormously to me even from across the ocean.
I travel often to Ireland to visit family and for various GAA meetings as I’m very involved volunteering in that association. Every trip over I check your tour schedule to see if timing lines up and if tickets are available (but of course your shows are always sold out). I had the great privilege of attending your shows in Mullingar (February 2024 – thanks for the kind shout out) and Dundalk (October 2025). Thank you for your amazing performances on those nights. Definitely checked off a bucket list item those nights!!
And this is where you being the centre of meaningful connections for me comes in. Leading up to your Mullingar show, I reached out to my friend Jason (GAA connection) inquiring about tickets, and little did I know he is Patsy’s nephew. Jason kindly connected me with Patsy who then introduced me to Hilary, and I struck up a friendship with them. Hilary and I are in touch since then. Fast forward to April this year and Hilary reached out to let me know the HSP booked their first tour to Canada and asked if I’d help spread the word. And happy to help I was. Hilary connected me with Kevin and among other things I shared contacts for future Vancouver shows and I’m helping to promote Toronto gig through the Toronto GAA community. And what makes this connection even more meaningful is that Kevin and HSP have invited my son Ryan to be their supporting act for their Toronto show. What an unexpected and unbelievable opportunity they have given to Ryan to join HSP. And this opportunity for him all stems from a connection to you. Ryan has loved your music for so many years and plays your songs often. And through my love of your music which lead to my friendship with Hilary, opportunity has been created for Ryan, the next generation of musicians.
Thank you for the honesty in your songwriting, for the years of hard work behind it, and for the way your music connects us all, and builds community around the world. It really has been a gift to me and my family. And thank you to Hilary and Patsy for their friendship.
With deep respect and gratitude,
Kerry
Hi C so it’s Culture Night tomorrow night as we all know as this stage, I said I ‘d look up the official description ” Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of Culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement ”
The night ” celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day. ” Well what an apt description of your gigs ? thankfully you do this most weeks, nearly all year round and all around Ireland. Safe travelling, beir bua agus beannacht. H
Hi Christy,
Hope alls going well in the workroom
or wherever you’re at it. It was a magic night
you gave us last Friday in The Hanger.
And we’re looking forward to tomorrow night.
Safe travels a chara.
Bourkey
Dear Christy I hope you are well. It’s a 100 days to Christmas.
I’m feeling somewhat bad for the poor man Sheeran. I am torn between what drives the fellow, entertainment and pleasant songs to billions of people but I also feel that he has left a poor legacy for his children when they ask what side of history he stood on. What I do know is that the self styled ‘cultural irishman’ must have hit rock bottom and be feeling quite alone.
I saw Beoga in London a few years ago they opened for Damo and they were brilliant! It all spins on a coin. Keep well x
Hello Christy .
Myself and my son just watched Cartlann Christy Moore . We are delighted to know you are Archiving your life and hope to visit soon.
Can I ask as I watched how you spoke about your mom and how she taught you pronunciation when singing and to listen to the lyric of a song and how to remember the less fortunate , what do you believe she would have hoped for you in later life ?
My son is 15 and has been listening to you forever . He learned guitar and loves the older songs like Johnny jump up and cliff of Doneen .my favourite is beeswing.
Thank you
Its been a great journey, working with the Irish trad music archive….Its been a learning process and I’ve made many new friends,….
I brought boxes, bags, drawers full of ephemera, copybooks, journals, notes, cards letters, posters etc etc…..with their skill and love of music/song they put a shape on everything…I’ve seen a few examples of what they have created and I look forward to seeing it all next month when the archive will be exhibited…
thankfully the work continues, still finding songs to sing, trying to write new verses, revive some old ones and , best of all, listeners still gather to hear them performed
great to read that your Son is listening, learning, playing and singing…our tradition thus preserved, its future guaranteed…
Hi Christy
An interesting city centre wander,yesterday. Thinking of great gigs I’ve seen over decades.
Looking at posters,I saw a familiar name…
13th December…The Highstool Prophets…Manchester Ritz…
Classic venue…good luck, lads!
Dave
Go for it
Just got home from Ireland. Me and my girlfriend went to see your show in Galway and you did not disappoint! We both loved it and it was definately worth the travel! Also gave me the chance to check all the record stores I could find in Galway and Limerick to find some records of you, as it’s not that easy to find in Norway! Arriving home with 4 new Christy moore LP’s and great memories! Thank you again for all that you do and the great music you have given and continue to give!
Atleast now you know you have fans in their twenties all the way over in Norway!
Thank you….having travelled so far, I’m happy to read that you had a good visit….
I played once in Norway…back in 1977 I did 2 gigs in Bergen….
I was drinking heavily…..I did not play well…I still regret that….
greetings to all Norwegian songsters…
Hi. Shane will surely give a blast of Honda 50 tonight !! What a win, what a buzz, some week for Irish sport, to add to the mighty gig in Gallimh…beir bua agus beannacht !! H
well done Shane…
glad to see the back of those feckin Chinooks…
they give me the willies….
Hello Christy, Just driving up to Malahide for a last night before crossing the waves.
It’s just reappeared in my head. Your singing of The two Conneellys. That verse in Irish was stunning. I feel so lucky to have heard you singing it live. Thankyou! 💚
Rebecca
I harbour sorrow over the loss of my Native tongue
my wee verse ,”as Gaeilge”, but a small token in a life of singing and writing “as Béarla”
in my early teens I had reasonable fluency in Irish but I soon lapsed into the Ballads and Folksongs written in a foreign language..
That said,I’ve cherished each and every song that has come my way
Yet betimes, I feel that sense of loss…. when I hear the likes of Eoghan Ó Ceannabháín, Seosamh Ó hÉanaigh,The Begley Family singing so beautifully “as Gaeilge” I marvel and wonder at the beauty and flow of their songs…
that said, I had the greatest of times singing in a thousand English and Scottish Folk Clubs…and later travelling the world singing songs in English…
Today we have a great Irish language revivial in our midst….
Thank you Rebecca & Stephen
Just to say what a great night my self and my wife had last night in Leisureland. You’re in great voice as was the audience. We were close enough to you to give you a wee prompt on Lawless! That mic gives you great freedom on stage. Fair play and long may you continue.
thats the kinda talk we like to hear here…muchos gracias to Mr & Mrs Hopper…
and yes, that mic has been an adventurous innovation…allowing me to move hither and thither without a bother in the world….I’ve been practicin a few Flatley moves here on the mirror…but the chiropractor threatened to resign and my spiritual advisor suggested I cop myself on and start actin my age…feckin spoil sports the pair of ’em…
How ya Christy thank you for a wonderful gig last night I loveed the set some gems appeared Tippin it up to Nancy Lawless,the Galtee mountain boy togged Farmer Michael Hayes broke new ground all in all a fantastic night and a pleasure to be there to you and the crew fair play
Face the puck out
great to see the Bullaun crew last night…sounding good and pulling first time
Hello Christy,
Im glad they filled a corner, as we say in these parts
So many different songs last night.
Im agreeing with you wholeheartedly about Lawless. Removing the one word, you’ve turned him from a victim into a person.
Rebecca
Mick Curry’s song is such a fine ballad
its very fitting that it is now in the Irish Traditional Music Archive
so much imagery running thru his lines
that last verse is a heartbreaker
the second last verse leaves an unsolvable mystery
Mick assured me that “Lawless” is a work of complete fiction…
Based on many diverse characters and situations he encountered growing up in and around Raytown….
(Mick was a good buddy of the late Barney Rush)
Ironically, I’ve encountered many who claim to have known Lawless, …..let us leave them at it
Hi Christy,
Hope you got home safely through the downpours. Brilliant night in Galway, you set the tone with your opening of “How Long”. Hopefully the weather will keep him indoors for the weekend. Loved “Tipping it up to Nancy “ with the Bodhran. Great to meet all our 4711er friends from near and far.
Best regards.
Ride on
Patsy
its such a different journey in these hasty times…
how we’ve all been induced to rush everywhere,
tearing around like blue arsed flies
Chapelizod, Palmerstown, Lucan, Leixlip, Maynooth, Kilcock, Mother Hubbards,left & Kinnegad,Kilbeggan, all that and we were still only half way to Moate
changing gears, rolling windows up and down, puttin out the willie winkers,handbrake turns, double clutches, green shield stamps,
But here we are Patsy, still making the best of it all…Thanks Be
Sad day always on this date, thinking of Mary and John Heffernan. Natalie Merchant wrote a bone chilling song about September 11 and every time I hear Christy sing it, my eyes well up with tears. But 25 years does not dim the memories. I have discussed what I felt that day with friends and family, but as tragic that this day was there are present day policies that trigger memories of the pile. I look at the inhumane treatment of the people of Gaza and the landscape of destruction. Englands starvation of the Irish is wrong, German genocide of the Jews is wrong, fanatics flying planes into buildings is wrong, but people of different cultures as a whole are not evil. The policymakers that control spin are the real evil. Hopefully the world for our Grandchildren will be a better place. God Bless Christy and as soon as they process my Irish Citizenship I’ll be back for a visit, hopefully up north in a United Ireland.- Danny McGlinchey
It landed here yesterday
creating havoc wherever it goes
not a single redeeming factor
ugly, brainless, tastleless, humourless, crass,
always extremely,dangerous…
the sooner he gets outa here, the better
Listening to the news about this weekend’s arrivals reminded me of Hey Ronnie Reagan so i dug out the boxset to give it a whirl. Such a gem of a collection – that must have been a special time, pulling all the decades of material together and distilling it down to the final track selections. I remember that time now over 20 years ago listening intently to it all and discovering new gems from the archive. It still brings joy. A reverie of sorts. Hope you enjoyed the Galway gig. Give her the crack and up she goes. X
it was indeed a special time….Michael Traynor laid the foundation, he gathered all the ephemera into a hundred CDs ….we then reduced them down to the 6 cds in the collection ( we were not always in agreement ) I spent many days and nights with Robyn Robins in Enniskillen ….seeking a flow to the disparate sounds, creating some sort of running order….then, with my nephew Turlough Rynne, we created the colour coding for the 6 sides and I write the sleeve notes….Columbia records did a great job releasing and distributing the “Box Set 1964-2004 ” which went on to be very well recieved….
Always a joy when its referenced…best to you Rossie
Hello Christy,
Thankyou for the wonderful gig tonight.
Brown Eyes!! Lovely 💚
We did our best to sing you proud.
Hugs to all.
Rebecca
we all feasted last night on thon hamper of Yorkshire confections…Thank You Rebecca & Steve…safe & happy travels