Hi Christy
I saw you for the first time at Cambridge folk festival with Planxty in the 1970s and been following your music ever since.
In the the song Where I come from you mention the Dowling girls, I wonder who they were?
I have looking into the Dowling familty history and traced them back to Portlaoise area for gnerations and know up unil recently they cut peat and one great uncle drowed in thr bog..
Christy's reply
Hi Mark,
“The Dowling Girls”
Bridie was my Grandmother, Nannie,her Sister by beloved Grand-aunt…along with their Brother Frank they farmed at Barronstown, Miltown, nr Newbridge in County Kildare…the Dowling farm ( about 100 acres) had adjoining access to good bog land…. sadly it had to be sold in the 1970s….everything bulldozed to oblivion..no sign left of the home, springwater well, milking parlour, dairy, sheds, henrun, veg or flower garden, turf clamp ,potato pit…work horses, pony and trap,
…they were the finest of people…95% self sufficent…( except for sugar, salt , tea and Gold Flake Cigarettes and maybe the occasional few biscuits
The men mentioned in the song were Jimmy (Sonny) Gary and Ned Slattery..three brothers who along with other neighbours wold form a ‘meitheal” at times of Threshing, Haymaking and Turf cutting….
it was lovely to rerd your post…. as a consequence I rehearsed the song and performed it last night in the City Of Mullingar…I rteckn it will remain in the set for a while
Good morning christy . Hooe your keeping well . My sister Helen and her husband nial are going to see you in mullingar park hotel this Thursday night they are a month married and they had the voyage as their first dance if possible could you sing it for them Thursday. Thanks christy and me self and albie will be going to see you in naas in March looking forward to that . Mind you self see you soon
Christy's reply
call out requests are at an all time high….I’ve had numerous requests for this coming gig…if I did them all I might not have time to sing…I put them in a hat and pick 3 out before the show….yours will be in there Tiafitzyrowe
Ach Christy sorry
On re reading that last post it is a sour grapes loser’s post….apologies to all.
On a more musical note i recieved my Jinx Lennon CD over the weekend, now there is a man who lets rip and just does not care. Great fun. Trauma Themes Idiot Times is a roaring collection of entertainment.
The postie also dropped in one by Sinead and there is another LP by Joshua Burnside arriving on thursday at his gig.
A beautiful Chaffinch keeps coming to the bird table these last few days, he sits preening himself just now in the winter sun, i await his song.
Rory
Christy's reply
not at all…..
in earlier times I had the good fortune to attend International games at Lansdowne Road, Cardiff, Edinburgh,Paris and Twickenham……the atmosphere and bonhomie usually replicated …but not always
I’ll not forget 1973…. Scotland and Wales decided not to travel but the English team came to Lansdowne Rd and gave us a game in those troubled times…
Another memorable game was when England played Ireland in Croke Park in 2007…there was tension as the National Anthems were about to be played….83,000 listened in silence as god saved the queen…not a single boo was heard…considering what happened in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday 1920, it was quite a statement of respect towards the visiting team….
Finn left his kicking boots at home…it was plain to see that the lad was hurting….none of them were easy conversions..
….great to see Wales back in the game…Italy showing signs of improvement…good for the game to have 6 Nations competing for spoils…we’ll have our work cut out when France arrive…Italy will be waiting for us, come the day ….
I look forward to hearing Jinx latest
have you heard his “Stop giving out about Nigerians”?
Glad i didn’t take Gipp up on a ticket for ‘twickers’, mind you my audi A7 coupe got stolen , my picnic hamper had its bollinger, canapes and caviar go off in the heat, my chariot swung so low one of the wheels came off and my boots had square toecaps.
I was fit neither for the all important twickers carpark picnic, nor the odious and meaningless singing of an african american slave song first sung by 2 Choctaw freedmen…until Duhan ran squinty, itoje conned the ref and Finn was left a yard from the touch and 10 from where it should have been , but its the booing of the kick that i found hardest.
Finn cannot be imperious every saturday after all.
Your lads eventually kept the truck rolling, while the electric french must have forgotten to plug in before they played england.
Great spectacle all round.
I think we need a duet from you and Max Boyce , Christy.
Rory
Very happy to report that the Central Library,Manchester exhibition now has two more cases! Bulging with folk ephemera from a golden age…much familiar to you and people you knew…
Press quality photos of fresh faced Watersons took me back 50 plus years and a few hundred yards….wonderous harmonies rattled the floor of the Lesser Free Trade Hall…
I hope some readers have chance to visit the exhibition…on for a few more weeks.
HELLO CHRISTY, DERMOT HENRY HERE IN NEW YORK, LAST SPOKE TO YOU IN 1992 WHEN YOU PLAYED AT THE LANDSDOWN IN THE BRONX (WHERE YOU WERE TERRIFIC)’ ANYWAY I WOULD LOVE TO SEND YOU 3 ORIGINAL FOLK SONGS AND WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO SEND THEM IF IT WOULD BE OK TO DO THAT. I LOVE YOUR NEW CD- PLAY IT OVER AND OVER. ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. UP SLGO!
Over a few decades,Colin Harper has been linked to much of my favourite music. As author,conduit of info,Colin appears regularly…
Most recently,linked to Bill Leaders work and cropping up in my chats with Mike Butler at the Central Library exhibition.
Mr Harper has done a great job with box sets on Pentangle and Bert Jansch. so,no surprise to read his sleevenotes as he unpicked the back story of recording sessions by Bert and his wife,Loren Auerbach…RIP.
Also,active online,one of the best sites for a good trawl is
Hi christy,
Great show last week! Looking forward to it again this week. We are Big fans from Philadelphia P.A. and our trip was planned around seeing you twice in mullingar. Saw you for the first time twenty five years ago in Waterford during our honeymoon, you were gracious enough to sign an autograph for us, which we cherish. Would like to request butterfly 🦋 for this weeks show. Cheers Joe and Susan
Joe and Susan
Christy's reply
welcome back Joe & Susan..hope Ye are having a good week here in Bognia…I’ll be chasing Butterfly between now and Thursday
It was a great afternoon in Bury. A small audience,listened and joined in with Bury FC nostalgia…talk of nails in studs, local lads who played,match programmes and all the quality stuff…I was also surprised that,until today,I’d never heard of ‘New Footy’,table football game that preceded/ was allegedly better than Subbuteo! There’s also a terrific exhibition of photos and Bury FC ephemera,on display for a afew more days.
Hi Christy,
Oh where are you VAR when we need you.
John Spillane by a toe , by a feckin toe bhoy.
Sin A bhfuill
Bourkey
delighted for John Spillane..no better man….sang his Gortatagort last night…its a perfect song….
Hi. Here is a link to an presentation by the ITMA, for anyone in Dublin, sharing their archives including Christys .. Let the music keep your spirits high: Archiving Irish Traditional Musicians Date: 27 feb • 18:00
Location: 139-144 Pearse Street, D02 HE37 Dublin 2
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/let-the-music-keep-your-spirits-high-archiving-irish-traditional-musicians-tickets-1249293322959?aff=ebdsshsms&utm_share_source=listing_android
Hello Christy,
The very best wishes for tonight. Hope everybody has a great evening.
Rebecca
Hi Christy
I saw you for the first time at Cambridge folk festival with Planxty in the 1970s and been following your music ever since.
In the the song Where I come from you mention the Dowling girls, I wonder who they were?
I have looking into the Dowling familty history and traced them back to Portlaoise area for gnerations and know up unil recently they cut peat and one great uncle drowed in thr bog..
Hi Mark,
“The Dowling Girls”
Bridie was my Grandmother, Nannie,her Sister by beloved Grand-aunt…along with their Brother Frank they farmed at Barronstown, Miltown, nr Newbridge in County Kildare…the Dowling farm ( about 100 acres) had adjoining access to good bog land…. sadly it had to be sold in the 1970s….everything bulldozed to oblivion..no sign left of the home, springwater well, milking parlour, dairy, sheds, henrun, veg or flower garden, turf clamp ,potato pit…work horses, pony and trap,
…they were the finest of people…95% self sufficent…( except for sugar, salt , tea and Gold Flake Cigarettes and maybe the occasional few biscuits
The men mentioned in the song were Jimmy (Sonny) Gary and Ned Slattery..three brothers who along with other neighbours wold form a ‘meitheal” at times of Threshing, Haymaking and Turf cutting….
it was lovely to rerd your post…. as a consequence I rehearsed the song and performed it last night in the City Of Mullingar…I rteckn it will remain in the set for a while
Good morning christy . Hooe your keeping well . My sister Helen and her husband nial are going to see you in mullingar park hotel this Thursday night they are a month married and they had the voyage as their first dance if possible could you sing it for them Thursday. Thanks christy and me self and albie will be going to see you in naas in March looking forward to that . Mind you self see you soon
call out requests are at an all time high….I’ve had numerous requests for this coming gig…if I did them all I might not have time to sing…I put them in a hat and pick 3 out before the show….yours will be in there Tiafitzyrowe
Hello Christy,
Here’s something for the guestbook this morning
https://youtu.be/UPI_tHNjS78?si=mUNToop8jYy_-u8b
Practice practice practice, as my Grandad would say
To try to make that guitar sound like what’s in my head. It’s a good life.
Rebecca
Daoirí is playing a stormer…
Thanks for the pointer to Jinx’s Nigerians( stop giving out)….great song.
In exchange try ‘Danny Nedelko’ by ‘Idles’.
Rory
I prefer the sub editor version
Please keep amokking
Ach Christy sorry
On re reading that last post it is a sour grapes loser’s post….apologies to all.
On a more musical note i recieved my Jinx Lennon CD over the weekend, now there is a man who lets rip and just does not care. Great fun. Trauma Themes Idiot Times is a roaring collection of entertainment.
The postie also dropped in one by Sinead and there is another LP by Joshua Burnside arriving on thursday at his gig.
A beautiful Chaffinch keeps coming to the bird table these last few days, he sits preening himself just now in the winter sun, i await his song.
Rory
not at all…..
in earlier times I had the good fortune to attend International games at Lansdowne Road, Cardiff, Edinburgh,Paris and Twickenham……the atmosphere and bonhomie usually replicated …but not always
I’ll not forget 1973…. Scotland and Wales decided not to travel but the English team came to Lansdowne Rd and gave us a game in those troubled times…
Another memorable game was when England played Ireland in Croke Park in 2007…there was tension as the National Anthems were about to be played….83,000 listened in silence as god saved the queen…not a single boo was heard…considering what happened in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday 1920, it was quite a statement of respect towards the visiting team….
Finn left his kicking boots at home…it was plain to see that the lad was hurting….none of them were easy conversions..
….great to see Wales back in the game…Italy showing signs of improvement…good for the game to have 6 Nations competing for spoils…we’ll have our work cut out when France arrive…Italy will be waiting for us, come the day ….
I look forward to hearing Jinx latest
have you heard his “Stop giving out about Nigerians”?
Glad i didn’t take Gipp up on a ticket for ‘twickers’, mind you my audi A7 coupe got stolen , my picnic hamper had its bollinger, canapes and caviar go off in the heat, my chariot swung so low one of the wheels came off and my boots had square toecaps.
I was fit neither for the all important twickers carpark picnic, nor the odious and meaningless singing of an african american slave song first sung by 2 Choctaw freedmen…until Duhan ran squinty, itoje conned the ref and Finn was left a yard from the touch and 10 from where it should have been , but its the booing of the kick that i found hardest.
Finn cannot be imperious every saturday after all.
Your lads eventually kept the truck rolling, while the electric french must have forgotten to plug in before they played england.
Great spectacle all round.
I think we need a duet from you and Max Boyce , Christy.
Rory
Hi Christy
Very happy to report that the Central Library,Manchester exhibition now has two more cases! Bulging with folk ephemera from a golden age…much familiar to you and people you knew…
Press quality photos of fresh faced Watersons took me back 50 plus years and a few hundred yards….wonderous harmonies rattled the floor of the Lesser Free Trade Hall…
I hope some readers have chance to visit the exhibition…on for a few more weeks.
Dave
Hello Christy,
Something beautiful for a Monday morning
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14tNUgHhix/
Rebecca
Hayden’s of The Rock
Muskerry Mountains..
Purcells Trumpet Voluntary..
AdVance to Go..
Not on your Nelly…
Put it in
sub editor runs amok
CS20! I heard Damo raffled one of his guitars for homelessness at one of his recent gigs!? Is he playing that ebony newbie he got recently?
Guitar For Sale
No Strings Attached
HELLO CHRISTY, DERMOT HENRY HERE IN NEW YORK, LAST SPOKE TO YOU IN 1992 WHEN YOU PLAYED AT THE LANDSDOWN IN THE BRONX (WHERE YOU WERE TERRIFIC)’ ANYWAY I WOULD LOVE TO SEND YOU 3 ORIGINAL FOLK SONGS AND WHAT’S THE BEST WAY TO SEND THEM IF IT WOULD BE OK TO DO THAT. I LOVE YOUR NEW CD- PLAY IT OVER AND OVER. ALL THE BEST TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. UP SLGO!
26 Belmont Avenue…
where ‘s the posters
Interesting-looking webpage. Thin Lizzy doing ‘acoustic’. When? And Bruce ‘dropping a new LP’. Maybe it fell and broke?
Hi Christy
Over a few decades,Colin Harper has been linked to much of my favourite music. As author,conduit of info,Colin appears regularly…
Most recently,linked to Bill Leaders work and cropping up in my chats with Mike Butler at the Central Library exhibition.
Mr Harper has done a great job with box sets on Pentangle and Bert Jansch. so,no surprise to read his sleevenotes as he unpicked the back story of recording sessions by Bert and his wife,Loren Auerbach…RIP.
Also,active online,one of the best sites for a good trawl is
http://www.theafterword.co.uk
Have a good day
Dave
Hi christy,
Great show last week! Looking forward to it again this week. We are Big fans from Philadelphia P.A. and our trip was planned around seeing you twice in mullingar. Saw you for the first time twenty five years ago in Waterford during our honeymoon, you were gracious enough to sign an autograph for us, which we cherish. Would like to request butterfly 🦋 for this weeks show. Cheers Joe and Susan
Joe and Susan
welcome back Joe & Susan..hope Ye are having a good week here in Bognia…I’ll be chasing Butterfly between now and Thursday
Hi Christy.
It was a great afternoon in Bury. A small audience,listened and joined in with Bury FC nostalgia…talk of nails in studs, local lads who played,match programmes and all the quality stuff…I was also surprised that,until today,I’d never heard of ‘New Footy’,table football game that preceded/ was allegedly better than Subbuteo! There’s also a terrific exhibition of photos and Bury FC ephemera,on display for a afew more days.
Dave
“Anyone buying or selling a ticket”! £150 – £200 to get into Twickers today! Twicketmaster?