Hiya, I just signed up to this after looking for a fan email address so hopefully this will reach the one and only Christy Moore ❤️ Just wanted to say I have been listening since I was 8 years old: my father and his friends used to gather round the living room with their guitars, banjos, mandolins and chanters and what have you and have a right good jam session together. I am now 32 and my dad passed sadly passed when I was 16: the others thereafter dropped one by one till I am the only one left who remembers their names, their stories and their songs! I have lived alone since then (apart from a beautiful teenage son) and am studying music alongside the arts and humanities. I spend a huge chunk of my time, and life, listening to Christy Moore, as he carries not only my memories but is also a huge part of making the person I am today ❤️ Sadly not found many listeners to recreate the memories of my youth, probably would help if I left the house more to be fair 😂 but where are all the creatives? Where do all the soul seekers go? Where do I find the like minded people that I once knew? Is it now a time forever in the past or are you still out there? I will let yous know if I ever find the answer lol, for now I will continue to do my thing and listen to the person who made me everything I am today: god bless you Christy Moore, I’m sure I speak on behalf of everyone else I used to know when I say I love you loads, always have and always will xx
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Thanks for sharing your beautiful recollections of times past by…like you, I have happy memories from “sing-songs” in times long gone….our Mother liked nothing more then a gathering of friends and neighbours, a few bottles and plenty of songs…Herself would sing Kevin Barry, The Three Flowers, Ned of The Hill, Four Green Fields and She made sure that everyone sang or played and got a fair hearing….may the songs and music keep your spirits high
Hi Christy, good luck in the home county tonight..there will be some welcome on the mat… Later this evening I’ll be singing “The Orphanage” at a memorial anniversary event in Cavan on the grounds where 36 perished in an Orphanage Fire on our Main Street. It is 80 years to the day. Despite a chance to flee, “high orders” to return to dormitories prevailed. Thanks for your previous encouragement and recommendations with this song of remembrance. Kev
Christy's reply
Those innocent souls, their lives lost 80 years ago in that Cavan Orphanage inferno….it is so fitting that they be remembered…thanks for sharing Kevin…if possible perhaps you might consider posting a recording of your song here that we might all hear your tribute
Hello Christy,
Good luck for the bit of a do you’ve got going on tonight. I wish I was there.
No wonder your Latin is so good. You guys really went for it, didn’t you. I remember being an exotic addition to the church choir, in my early adulthood. Me and the choir master’s young wife were there in our floor length purple casscks and surplices. We sang a bit in Latin, but nothing like the depth you got to.
Talking of diction, Gilbert and sullivan’s torrent of words is good for getting the consonants nice and clear. It’s such a bugger to sing.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
there is absolutely no depth to my Latin….I retain a few key words, maybe a dozen or so which I display at every possible opportunity, same with French, merde alors, German ausfahrt toten hosen, grossen shisser… I spill badlee in awl forin longwedges
Greetings from Australia, Christy. I will be in Ireland this October. Will there be more shows scheduled for this time and if so when will they be published?
Christy's reply
Hopefully we’ll be treading the boards in some joint come October Phil..
keep an eye on the gig page here, maybe sign up for the newsletter, there are a few pencilled in but I dont have the precise info just now
safe travels
Hi Christy,
The one in a row is back on!!. Mayo sprung a surprise on The Kingdom when our Rose was away last weekend.…….still it’s not September yet or is it July nowadays, just doesn’t sound the same
Wishing you all the best in the “Yellow Furze” tomorrow. Who knows the “Curragh” might even make its way up the pecking order. Anyway, enjoy and we will see you in the middle of the Island next week.
Ride on.
Patsy
Christy's reply
Morra Patsy,
I’m sitting up in the bed here after a right good feed of porridge
I’d better get up and load the wagon
Glen Ryan is holding the Lilies back until the C’Ship commences
we’ll be ironing the Flour Bags before the year is out
“bless me father for I have sinned,
its 62 years since my last confession”
“what is it my child ?”
“I dreamt I was drinking brandy out of the Sam Maguire Father”
A chap known to me related his tales of singing the “Tantrum Ergo” one time. After turning up late for singing class, the brother got him to sing it solo to the class, imagine the air of it and him trying to remember the Latin. Needless to say, he made a hash of it and several of the class being amused at his misfortune. The brother dismissed him out the class, he recalled his feelings of being disconsolate at the time, but probably felt in the long run he was as well off out of it.
Tantum Ergo to Gilbert and Sullivan – I like it.
Those Newbridge rapscallions!
The other day, I took a tram ride to Oldham. Mainly to take photos of the excellent WW1 memorial. Also, for a wander…
In the town’s museum there are tributes to honoured locals…one in particular, likely to be of interest to readers here.
Well worth an online search, to read about Clem Beckett. Killed in Spain, fighting for the International Brigade…a working class bloke with a conscience ,skilled motorcyclist and fascinating (all too short) life story… Added to the many names on the war memorial (funded by public subscription) it led to a thought provoking ride home as I flicked through the photos…in my head, Dick Gaughan playing MacColl s song of Jamie Foyers…
Dave
Christy's reply
I once dwelt upon the Oldham Rod in Rochdale..next door was a good Wilson’s Ale House called “The Morning Star”..with a name like that twas hard to pass the door..I lived over a Fruit & Veg emporium run by Derek McEwan from Chadderton…my Auntie Kath lived nearby at The Pack Horse Inn in Birtle where she dispensed John Willie Lees Keg ….I was getting my foot in the door at local Folk Clubs….
Howya Christy and all,
In other news, Joesph O Connor has been knocking that unhappy prince from his perch in bookshops up an down the land. In my Fathers house he tells the tale of Monsignor Hugh O Flaherty and how he helped thousands flee the nazis from occupied Rome. And he tells it well. Some gift to be able to put the words in the right order that keeps the reader turning pages.
Enjoy this evenings cabaret
Bourkey
Christy's reply
It may not be the home place but its as near as makes no difference….its always joyful returning to the home turf….
“I went to see my neighbours,to hear what they might say”
there will be new listeners and old songsters….spirits of some old ghosts…
“great stallions and brood mares
fillies colts and yearlings
on the Curragh of Kildare”
Hi All. A year since the horror started in Ukraine and no sign of any even start to any kind of a peace process ! More loss of lives and destruction on all sides, this poem written by M Harding & recorded by Adam is very moving https://youtu.be/q1hUBrlfsow Enjoy Naas and all the connections there. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Christy's reply
Fáilte arais go dtí Condae Cill Dara
“Newbridge or Nowhere” sez Beggs McCormack, so we settled for Naas
Hi christy, i love music but cannot play a note, there is time yet though you are right, i think alex ferguson learned to play piano after retiring.
Shall grab a pair of spoons from the kitchen cupboard tonight and give it a go.
Meantime Finn will be conducting his own one man orchestra at the weekend, in a Parisien symphony.
Good luck scrumming against Pavarotti on saturday, i loved the box set description of when you went to see him, something like…he went for a feed between each song.
Rory
Christy's reply
I cherish these 6 Nation Weekends…even more so when we are in the final mix…it goes way back to boyhood days…
Heading for Naas today….playing in Kilashee tonight..( proper name “Coill na Sídhe”….the invader took the usual phonetic shortcut and banished “Wood of the Fairies” ) The venue is 3 miles across the fields from Punchestown….lets see if Ruby makes weight
Hello Christy,
One of my favourite things to do is to sit round the fire as the sun disappears into darkness and sing along to your songs. Steve sings harmonies.
I’m thinking this is where the verse singing at your gigs has sprung from. We’re all singing along at home, and your diction is very clear to learn from. Im trying to improve my own.
The Magic nights album is lovely to sing along to when everyone is relaxed.
Did you sing bass in the choir? I’m wondering what sort of things you sang.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
I’d line up with the Bass-Baritones and lash into Tantum Ergo,a blast of Gloria in Excelsis followed by a punk version of the O Salutaris Hostia…for light relief we’d spend the evenings singing Gilbert & Sullivan or listening to Kathleen Ferrier…it became problematic when the bass-baritones began to fancy the sopranos-altos..the priests were not equipped to deal with such boyish fantasies..they were busy enough with their own
Hi christy,
I heard a radio show tonight dedicated to artists with distinctive voices, interesting topic.
Yours has changed a lot over the ( many ) decades it seems to my uneducated ear.
I thought quickly of billy mackenzie, rufus wainright, john reilly, miriam makeba to name a few , and of kevin rowland. Kevin does an ‘interesting’ version of The Curragh of Kildare, that old traditional that you do so very well.
Indeed his is on a fascinating ‘let the record show’ album of irish songs by Dexys , the videos on youtube provide some amazingly eyecatching clothing ( not a fair isle jumper in sight).
Was ‘The Curragh’ a very early song that you heard?
Cheers
Rory
Christy's reply
Voices and Singing techniques continually evolve with constant use….I think back to my early singing efforts as a boy soprano in primary school choirs and local “variety” concerts…then after that voice broke I returned as a bass baritone in secondary school choirs and operettas….early rock and roll singing was soon blown away by exposure to The Clancy Brothers….then decades of copying various singers followed until my own voice gradually emerged (probably in the 1980s)
“The Curragh of Kildare” was one of the first songs I uncovered…it was languishing in the “P.W. Joyce Collection” which I found in the Newbridge,Co. Kildare Library circa 1961….Donal Lunny and I began to sing in our early days..MIck Moloney heard us play it at and when on to record it with The Johnstons…their fine version hit the Irish Charts in the late 60s
and please stop this nonsense about an “uneducated” ear
PS. I’m looking forward to the next episode Finn’s frolics..
Hello Christy,
Hmmm, it’s very special isn’t it. Not just the noise, which is stunning. But the way they’ve all got to the stage as musicians where they’ve been able to completely cast off their egos. There’s no butting up against any edges anywhere is there. It’s all one.
I get that from your singing. And it’s what I want from mine.
Christy
Well done on your part in bringing everyone together and advocating for equality at Saturday’s March.
We’re all equal no matter where we come from and in your own words “ We’ll all be pushing up clover
And everyone in the graveyard votes the same.”
The late John Hume nailed it
“ Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace – respect for diversity.”
Fair play to you and as your old late schoolmate David McScrum Noble would say “ drive on Christy”
Great stuff.
Richy
Christy's reply
I’m happy to see David Noble’s name mentioned here… a good friend from School Days …thanks too for posting John Hume’s words
“Difference is of the essence of humanity.
Difference is an accident of birth
and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.
The answer to difference is to respect it.
Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace
– respect for diversity.”
There was a beautiful atmosphere at Saturday’s Gathering….and great diversity apparent among the tens of thousands who gathered together
Good evening Christy. Green Murphy today commenced dismantling a dangerously unstable old brick wall on Kentish Town High Road building site, future block of flats. Me, being a careful co-pilot on Kango hammer in Shepherds…I mean Kentish town, I spotted the brick with remnants of a poster advertising a music show of Christy Moore and Peggy Seeger at Wembley Centre, 7:30 pm. , year unknown. This discovery made my day in these depressive times and reminded me what beacon of hope in humanity you are and how grateful of a fan I am. With kindest regards, Patrik from Czechia.
Christy's reply
Thank You Patrik
I’d like to have seen that poster.
I believe it was a Concert in support of Hugh Callaghan,Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter,Johnny Walker,Billy Power and Richard McIlkenny….Six Irish men who languished in English Jails for 17 years ..they were cruelly framed by the West Midlands Police who collaborated with Forensics and Judiciary to send them down…..I’ll never forget the pictures of their beaten, battered ,tortured faces after 6 days in English Police Custody
Hello Christy,
It’s one of the great joys of life watching you make songs. I love watching new words flow, hone and weave themselves together.
Ireland for All.
that may be my favourite visual recording of Music…I return to it time and again…such a priviledge and pleasure to have played with most of these musicians…the Geordie lad is on my wish list !! the lad in the traps too….the thread that joins them for the duration is beautiful to behold
It was good to see yesterday’s march so well attended, to read the news reports of your words, and to hear Viva La Quinta Brigada, a choice which echoed your reply to Danny on here a couple of weeks ago, which I thought perfectly summed up how fascism is always lying in wait.
I saw this tweet, from Cllr Matt Collins, which includes a video. I don’t know if the link will work OK
Hiya, I just signed up to this after looking for a fan email address so hopefully this will reach the one and only Christy Moore ❤️ Just wanted to say I have been listening since I was 8 years old: my father and his friends used to gather round the living room with their guitars, banjos, mandolins and chanters and what have you and have a right good jam session together. I am now 32 and my dad passed sadly passed when I was 16: the others thereafter dropped one by one till I am the only one left who remembers their names, their stories and their songs! I have lived alone since then (apart from a beautiful teenage son) and am studying music alongside the arts and humanities. I spend a huge chunk of my time, and life, listening to Christy Moore, as he carries not only my memories but is also a huge part of making the person I am today ❤️ Sadly not found many listeners to recreate the memories of my youth, probably would help if I left the house more to be fair 😂 but where are all the creatives? Where do all the soul seekers go? Where do I find the like minded people that I once knew? Is it now a time forever in the past or are you still out there? I will let yous know if I ever find the answer lol, for now I will continue to do my thing and listen to the person who made me everything I am today: god bless you Christy Moore, I’m sure I speak on behalf of everyone else I used to know when I say I love you loads, always have and always will xx
Thanks for sharing your beautiful recollections of times past by…like you, I have happy memories from “sing-songs” in times long gone….our Mother liked nothing more then a gathering of friends and neighbours, a few bottles and plenty of songs…Herself would sing Kevin Barry, The Three Flowers, Ned of The Hill, Four Green Fields and She made sure that everyone sang or played and got a fair hearing….may the songs and music keep your spirits high
Hi Christy, good luck in the home county tonight..there will be some welcome on the mat… Later this evening I’ll be singing “The Orphanage” at a memorial anniversary event in Cavan on the grounds where 36 perished in an Orphanage Fire on our Main Street. It is 80 years to the day. Despite a chance to flee, “high orders” to return to dormitories prevailed. Thanks for your previous encouragement and recommendations with this song of remembrance. Kev
Those innocent souls, their lives lost 80 years ago in that Cavan Orphanage inferno….it is so fitting that they be remembered…thanks for sharing Kevin…if possible perhaps you might consider posting a recording of your song here that we might all hear your tribute
Most of my Latin comes from Monty Python
https://youtu.be/kx_G2a2hL6U
Hello Christy,
Good luck for the bit of a do you’ve got going on tonight. I wish I was there.
No wonder your Latin is so good. You guys really went for it, didn’t you. I remember being an exotic addition to the church choir, in my early adulthood. Me and the choir master’s young wife were there in our floor length purple casscks and surplices. We sang a bit in Latin, but nothing like the depth you got to.
https://youtu.be/-B9V5JQXhMM
Talking of diction, Gilbert and sullivan’s torrent of words is good for getting the consonants nice and clear. It’s such a bugger to sing.
Rebecca
there is absolutely no depth to my Latin….I retain a few key words, maybe a dozen or so which I display at every possible opportunity, same with French, merde alors, German ausfahrt toten hosen, grossen shisser… I spill badlee in awl forin longwedges
Greetings from Australia, Christy. I will be in Ireland this October. Will there be more shows scheduled for this time and if so when will they be published?
Hopefully we’ll be treading the boards in some joint come October Phil..
keep an eye on the gig page here, maybe sign up for the newsletter, there are a few pencilled in but I dont have the precise info just now
safe travels
Hi Christy,
The one in a row is back on!!. Mayo sprung a surprise on The Kingdom when our Rose was away last weekend.…….still it’s not September yet or is it July nowadays, just doesn’t sound the same
Wishing you all the best in the “Yellow Furze” tomorrow. Who knows the “Curragh” might even make its way up the pecking order. Anyway, enjoy and we will see you in the middle of the Island next week.
Ride on.
Patsy
Morra Patsy,
I’m sitting up in the bed here after a right good feed of porridge
I’d better get up and load the wagon
Glen Ryan is holding the Lilies back until the C’Ship commences
we’ll be ironing the Flour Bags before the year is out
“bless me father for I have sinned,
its 62 years since my last confession”
“what is it my child ?”
“I dreamt I was drinking brandy out of the Sam Maguire Father”
A chap known to me related his tales of singing the “Tantrum Ergo” one time. After turning up late for singing class, the brother got him to sing it solo to the class, imagine the air of it and him trying to remember the Latin. Needless to say, he made a hash of it and several of the class being amused at his misfortune. The brother dismissed him out the class, he recalled his feelings of being disconsolate at the time, but probably felt in the long run he was as well off out of it.
Tantum Ergo to Gilbert and Sullivan – I like it.
Those Newbridge rapscallions!
Ita Missa Est
Gloria tibi Domine
Hi Christy/all
The other day, I took a tram ride to Oldham. Mainly to take photos of the excellent WW1 memorial. Also, for a wander…
In the town’s museum there are tributes to honoured locals…one in particular, likely to be of interest to readers here.
Well worth an online search, to read about Clem Beckett. Killed in Spain, fighting for the International Brigade…a working class bloke with a conscience ,skilled motorcyclist and fascinating (all too short) life story… Added to the many names on the war memorial (funded by public subscription) it led to a thought provoking ride home as I flicked through the photos…in my head, Dick Gaughan playing MacColl s song of Jamie Foyers…
Dave
I once dwelt upon the Oldham Rod in Rochdale..next door was a good Wilson’s Ale House called “The Morning Star”..with a name like that twas hard to pass the door..I lived over a Fruit & Veg emporium run by Derek McEwan from Chadderton…my Auntie Kath lived nearby at The Pack Horse Inn in Birtle where she dispensed John Willie Lees Keg ….I was getting my foot in the door at local Folk Clubs….
Howya Christy and all,
In other news, Joesph O Connor has been knocking that unhappy prince from his perch in bookshops up an down the land. In my Fathers house he tells the tale of Monsignor Hugh O Flaherty and how he helped thousands flee the nazis from occupied Rome. And he tells it well. Some gift to be able to put the words in the right order that keeps the reader turning pages.
Enjoy this evenings cabaret
Bourkey
It may not be the home place but its as near as makes no difference….its always joyful returning to the home turf….
“I went to see my neighbours,to hear what they might say”
there will be new listeners and old songsters….spirits of some old ghosts…
“great stallions and brood mares
fillies colts and yearlings
on the Curragh of Kildare”
Hi All. A year since the horror started in Ukraine and no sign of any even start to any kind of a peace process ! More loss of lives and destruction on all sides, this poem written by M Harding & recorded by Adam is very moving https://youtu.be/q1hUBrlfsow Enjoy Naas and all the connections there. Beir bua agus beannacht. H
Fáilte arais go dtí Condae Cill Dara
“Newbridge or Nowhere” sez Beggs McCormack, so we settled for Naas
Hi christy, i love music but cannot play a note, there is time yet though you are right, i think alex ferguson learned to play piano after retiring.
Shall grab a pair of spoons from the kitchen cupboard tonight and give it a go.
Meantime Finn will be conducting his own one man orchestra at the weekend, in a Parisien symphony.
Good luck scrumming against Pavarotti on saturday, i loved the box set description of when you went to see him, something like…he went for a feed between each song.
Rory
I cherish these 6 Nation Weekends…even more so when we are in the final mix…it goes way back to boyhood days…
Heading for Naas today….playing in Kilashee tonight..( proper name “Coill na Sídhe”….the invader took the usual phonetic shortcut and banished “Wood of the Fairies” ) The venue is 3 miles across the fields from Punchestown….lets see if Ruby makes weight
Hello Christy,
One of my favourite things to do is to sit round the fire as the sun disappears into darkness and sing along to your songs. Steve sings harmonies.
I’m thinking this is where the verse singing at your gigs has sprung from. We’re all singing along at home, and your diction is very clear to learn from. Im trying to improve my own.
The Magic nights album is lovely to sing along to when everyone is relaxed.
Did you sing bass in the choir? I’m wondering what sort of things you sang.
Rebecca
I’d line up with the Bass-Baritones and lash into Tantum Ergo,a blast of Gloria in Excelsis followed by a punk version of the O Salutaris Hostia…for light relief we’d spend the evenings singing Gilbert & Sullivan or listening to Kathleen Ferrier…it became problematic when the bass-baritones began to fancy the sopranos-altos..the priests were not equipped to deal with such boyish fantasies..they were busy enough with their own
Hi christy,
I heard a radio show tonight dedicated to artists with distinctive voices, interesting topic.
Yours has changed a lot over the ( many ) decades it seems to my uneducated ear.
I thought quickly of billy mackenzie, rufus wainright, john reilly, miriam makeba to name a few , and of kevin rowland. Kevin does an ‘interesting’ version of The Curragh of Kildare, that old traditional that you do so very well.
Indeed his is on a fascinating ‘let the record show’ album of irish songs by Dexys , the videos on youtube provide some amazingly eyecatching clothing ( not a fair isle jumper in sight).
Was ‘The Curragh’ a very early song that you heard?
Cheers
Rory
Voices and Singing techniques continually evolve with constant use….I think back to my early singing efforts as a boy soprano in primary school choirs and local “variety” concerts…then after that voice broke I returned as a bass baritone in secondary school choirs and operettas….early rock and roll singing was soon blown away by exposure to The Clancy Brothers….then decades of copying various singers followed until my own voice gradually emerged (probably in the 1980s)
“The Curragh of Kildare” was one of the first songs I uncovered…it was languishing in the “P.W. Joyce Collection” which I found in the Newbridge,Co. Kildare Library circa 1961….Donal Lunny and I began to sing in our early days..MIck Moloney heard us play it at and when on to record it with The Johnstons…their fine version hit the Irish Charts in the late 60s
and please stop this nonsense about an “uneducated” ear
PS. I’m looking forward to the next episode Finn’s frolics..
Rebecca. Nothing here, yet anyway.
Just a note to Ed, I got your message from bandcamp. Thankyou! I’ve tried to reply, not sure if you will have got it.
Hello Christy,
Hmmm, it’s very special isn’t it. Not just the noise, which is stunning. But the way they’ve all got to the stage as musicians where they’ve been able to completely cast off their egos. There’s no butting up against any edges anywhere is there. It’s all one.
I get that from your singing. And it’s what I want from mine.
Rebecca
Christy
Well done on your part in bringing everyone together and advocating for equality at Saturday’s March.
We’re all equal no matter where we come from and in your own words “ We’ll all be pushing up clover
And everyone in the graveyard votes the same.”
The late John Hume nailed it
“ Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace – respect for diversity.”
Fair play to you and as your old late schoolmate David McScrum Noble would say “ drive on Christy”
Great stuff.
Richy
I’m happy to see David Noble’s name mentioned here… a good friend from School Days …thanks too for posting John Hume’s words
“Difference is of the essence of humanity.
Difference is an accident of birth
and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict.
The answer to difference is to respect it.
Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace
– respect for diversity.”
There was a beautiful atmosphere at Saturday’s Gathering….and great diversity apparent among the tens of thousands who gathered together
Good evening Christy. Green Murphy today commenced dismantling a dangerously unstable old brick wall on Kentish Town High Road building site, future block of flats. Me, being a careful co-pilot on Kango hammer in Shepherds…I mean Kentish town, I spotted the brick with remnants of a poster advertising a music show of Christy Moore and Peggy Seeger at Wembley Centre, 7:30 pm. , year unknown. This discovery made my day in these depressive times and reminded me what beacon of hope in humanity you are and how grateful of a fan I am. With kindest regards, Patrik from Czechia.
Thank You Patrik
I’d like to have seen that poster.
I believe it was a Concert in support of Hugh Callaghan,Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter,Johnny Walker,Billy Power and Richard McIlkenny….Six Irish men who languished in English Jails for 17 years ..they were cruelly framed by the West Midlands Police who collaborated with Forensics and Judiciary to send them down…..I’ll never forget the pictures of their beaten, battered ,tortured faces after 6 days in English Police Custody
Hello Christy,
It’s one of the great joys of life watching you make songs. I love watching new words flow, hone and weave themselves together.
Ireland for All.
Thanks to Anne for the tweet.
https://youtu.be/-voxZTfTclw
Rebecca
that may be my favourite visual recording of Music…I return to it time and again…such a priviledge and pleasure to have played with most of these musicians…the Geordie lad is on my wish list !! the lad in the traps too….the thread that joins them for the duration is beautiful to behold
Hi Christy,
It was good to see yesterday’s march so well attended, to read the news reports of your words, and to hear Viva La Quinta Brigada, a choice which echoed your reply to Danny on here a couple of weeks ago, which I thought perfectly summed up how fascism is always lying in wait.
I saw this tweet, from Cllr Matt Collins, which includes a video. I don’t know if the link will work OK
https://twitter.com/MattCollinspbp/status/1627005496140959744?s=20
All, the best,
Anne
’twas Like Donnybrook Fair
they were all there
the people that really matter