Done!
Signed up & champing at the bit young Mooresy!
Go well.Footy finals time here in New Holland – lotsa fever’n’fervour
My team not included – basket case ATM…
Looking forward to our trip & chance to hear the Christy playlisty
Wishing good things to the lot of you
Daniel Joseph Francis Harris (recovering Mick)
Christy's reply
if you lived in Connemara you’d be known as Dan-Joe-Frank
G’day Christy:
Well, let’s see how this goes..
My wife, grandson & I have booked a cruise for next year & will be in Cork & Dublin mid May next year.
I’ll keep an eye out for your gigs & hopefully we can catch you live.
Fingers crossed. In the meantime Muchos thanx for the music & long may the melodies meander magnificently’ ‘mongst musings
All the best
Danny Harris -(here)
Christy's reply
There may be dates in Dublin next May…..soon to be decided… if you sign up for newsletter you’ll get the nod….happy travels Hazzo……
Hey Christy, my wife Susanne and I were watching one of your YouTube videos back in March and she looked on her phone and found that there were tickets available to your show in Castlebar on Oct 28th. So we bought two tickets not knowing how we’d ever get there. A lot of planning has gone into this trip and we’re so excited to see you. For her, the first time and for me, I caught your gig with my son in 2007 in Coventry.
Susanne and I are huge fans and our favorite song,, that mirrors our 45 years together, is Voyage! If there is anyway that you can include that in the set at Castlebar we’d be most thankful.
All the best and looking forward to hearing and seeing you again.
Malcolm Rugeley
Christy's reply
Hey Malcolm,
I’m excited myself….I’ve not played Castlebar for almost 10 years….first played “The Traveller’s Friend” Theatre in that Town on Christmas Eve 1972….I was singing with Planxty….there was snow and ice on the road as we journied home…there was no heater in the old Ford Transit van but we had a bottle of sweet Poitín to keep out the frostbite…
i hope you and Susanne have a great trip as you both sail together towards your Golden Anniversary….45 years together is a remarkable achievement….
“life is an ocean….love is a boat”
I dunno Christy.
Promises to be a lovely evening for ground hurling.
With hopefully no sign of those hungry,snobby, shitehawks.
Suit a wristy hurler with an eye for goal.
Christy's reply
Come 8pm , be ready to face the puck out…..the stirabout is starting to bubble,gotta keep it short
Brendan Bracken?! That’s a right one. At some stage several years ago his remains were moved and repatriated to Galway, he’d be one of Rahoon Cemetery’s most famous occupants.
R. Ye must be landed. Do ye travel cross-country today or tomorrow? Long motorway trip, it can be sleep inducing. I’d recommended a stop along the way. There are two motorway service stations along the route.
Christy's reply
A right one is right….a quare hawk for sure (fol de dee get outa dat)…there’s gotta be an intriguing movie lurking in the memoirs of Brendan Bracken
Hi Christy, was taking a ramble around pollardstown fen last Sunday morning. While on the boardwalk enjoying the sun, I came accross two lads on a small boat coming up the canal. I never thought that was accessible, so was chatting to the lads and they asked if I wanted to go for a spin. So I did!! We went up as far as the hanged man’s. On the way back as you come into the fen, there’s a fork in the canal, known as the point of Gibraltar, which I didn’t know. Anyway the lads on the boat reckon this is what you were referencing in St Brendans voyage, have to ask is this true?!
Currently learning about the curragh aquifer, it’s an amazing place!!
Christy's reply
hey there Bangalore..tis a well known fact (around Gandogue Lane) that the Island of Gibralter was thus named by a Corporal out of the Rusty Rifles who took the soup and joined the BA on the Curragh Camp the mornin after a horrid feed of pints in Flanagans of Brownstown..the poor lad was half way between a blackout and the horrors when he took the kings shilling and found himself on the boat to Spain and him thinkin he was on the way to Holyhead
back in my day Pollardstown was a hunting ground..early kisses were stole up there… hand holdin and linkin…..a good place for mitchin too..Summer days around the Seven Springs
Guard Enright was the mitchin Guard but he never managed to track down me and the Meg
Hi Christy,
There was a 60th birthday bash for Shane in the NCH back in 2018.
It was January so you were probably in Vicar Street.
Finbar Furey sang Kitty.
Sinéad sang You’re the one.
Nick Cave was there too. Sadly Joe,Frank and Philip weren’t.
Michael D gave him a lifetime award. Amy Haben tells the tale of the night in the article A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday.
Looking forward to tomorrow nights gig.
Any chance of The Big Marque ?
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
Hello Christy,
I thought it was a strange picture. Usually when there’s a piper about everyone is interested.
Lots of self importance in it, not from the piper.
I was surprised. I must be naive, I guess.
This ship is just about the do a 3 point turn out of Holyhead. It’s a lovely morning.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
not at all naive….just curious to learn,…& happy to share newly discovered gems
Reminiscing tonight ,, and going back in time ,,thought came into my head might we get an updated Box Set next year ?
First one covered the first forty years 64/04 ,, would it be an idea to go with the next twenty 04/24? Or will you hold out for forty again ?
Love that Box Set there’s some gems contained within and not only the singing ,, one of my favourites is your “Tribute” to Mrs Thatcher !!!
Christy's reply
I have a date set for 2044 release of Box Set 2 (2004-2044)….I’m hoping Bertie Ahern will launch from the GPO…that The Wolfe Tones, Knee Cap and The Corrs will provide entertainment and hospitality provided by….(tbc)
Hi Christy . Great to see you still packing them in ,, it’s a long way from Slane House early 70s
My son Conor , grandson of “The Conor Brennan” will be in attendance in Leisureland on Saturday night the 9th
Conor is making the journey from Brighton where he now resides with his English partner Biddy ,, Conor has attended many times Vicar St and Trim ,, but it will be Biddy’s first time to experience the pleasure of the unique experience a Christy gig is ,, and I know it will live long in the memory ,,, great if you could give both a shout out and maybe a few bars of The Honda Fifty or Yellow Furze woman would go down a treat ,, and hoping I will bump in too you down around The Cotton Mills or Ardmulchan sometime soon , thanking you in advance !
Christy's reply
I remember that gig in Slane House from almost 50 years ago….my two cousins, Paddy & Harry Gibney from Stackallen were there as was my Cousin,the late, Paddy Power home on a visit from New York.The Family that ran Slane House knew of my own Family connection in the area…I was flying solo back then..I had recently acquired my own PA system and a small diesel van…I arrived in Slane around 5, set up my wee system, checked and tuned everything and then proceeded to get stuck into half a dozen pint bottles of Arthur Guinness as was my practice all those years ago… Finn Cullen was Stackallen there ( he was back in the TLT a few weeks ago)….my set back then would have included Joe McCann, Morrissey & The Russian Sailor,Hey Sandy,The Trip to Jerusalem, The Foxy Devil,Galtee Mountain Boy….I’m a bit hazy about what happened afterwards…Arthur from ST James’ Gate was kickin in…
its lovely to hear that your Conor is coming to Galway with Biddy….Nancy Power would smile at the good of that….such great memories of your Conor & Nancy and early visits to The Yellow Furze….my Godmother was Maeve Laffan from Beauparc….Herself and our Nancy were the closest of life-long friends…after Maeve died I discovered that she was a half sister to the legendary Brendan Bracken.. he was Churchill’s right hand man before, during and after the second World War…it was something neither Maeve nor Mammy ever mentioned….but they are all long gone…I may have Churchill in an upcoming song…he’s currently in the mix but may very well be eliminated when the final choice is made
typical,Yeats and Gregory ignoring the music of the Piper Corley…. as it was and as it remains… The Right Honourable Garech De Brún, of Beerocracy fame, broke the mould…he loved and understood the music..even had a go at the pipes himself, much to the disdain of his fellow aristocrats….hungry, snobbish, shitehawks, the most of them
Hello Christy,
I have to agree. My childhood was completely free of devices. It was all grass and streams, hills and oak trees, hawthorn and sticklebacks. Plus the music lessons. Piano from 7. I’d turned down the violin at 5. In those days a device was something you wore to show you were a member of some group or other.
And yet, these days I’m very grateful for my device. It let’s me get to know people I have a lot in common with but might never be lucky enough to meet. It’s great for introverts, we sad people who can be found talking to the cat at parties. The cat thing could be something many musicians have in common?
Towards the end of her life, my mother had several strokes. When she lost the use of her right hand her mobile was suddenly out of bounds. She kept in touch with many people using it. Her world was suddenly much smaller.
I feel that you were very lucky to have the mother you had. The source of music in our house was always me. And my brother too, but he was always more into art, scribbling away at his cartoons.
We’ll be setting off for Anglesey this afternoon.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
would’nt swap my early childhood for everything the world has to offer in 2023
Hi Christy. Myself and my wife shall be going to your City Hotel Armagh gig on 19 October 2023. That’s also same date as my wife’s 50th birthday (shush!!..). She’s a huge fan and we’ve seen you gig countless times these last 25 years or so. Her name is Vornie (short for Mavourneen). A wee shout out at the gig would make her day and birthday! Many thanks Christy. See you in October !! Keep er lit!
A couple of years ago I had mentioned to you of my mum Agnes. A huge health scare put her close to the other side but the fight remained. A triumphant return to form with slightly less mobility than previously has seen her back up on two feet and we are booked on a flight westbound in October to come see you in Armagh. My wife Michelle, myself and Agnes will be in attendance and sure we’ll bring my Dad, Frank, along for the craic too. To be able to come see you again is just magical and I’m sure it’ll be a great night. We cannot wait.
All the best
Frankie
Christy's reply
sound man Frankie…you’ll bring a bit of the barrowland atmosphere acroos with ye…welcome back Agnes…the Armagh gig is always a cracker..great room
Christy,
I was chatting today with a pal about Shane, he mused that there would be a huge outpouring of grief when the bard dies.
However i suggested we should be celebrating a life’s work during life, rather than the wailing and eulogising that the dead cannot hear ( and is sometime wailed from a bandwagon).
Pretty sure i saw a late late show special for shane, which is the right way , for me at least.
Anyway, leopardstown saturday, curragh sunday, cashel ( including the fantastic folk village museum) monday and laytown tuesday. If the gut, wallet and liver survive that is. Sadly no planned music this trip.
However i see Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny are at Drogheda Arts relatively soon….food for thought.
Rory
Christy's reply
that lad wont be going anywhere..already his spirit is imbued across the land…from Puckaune to Ardoyne, Shinrone to Gleann na Smól, we all carry a little bit of him, I only met him 4 or 5 times in my life..hes not a man you’ll meet everyday….he comes in somewhere every night of the week at 18/1…..he lives on the inside track sometimes well out of it but never far from the source…hes a divvil for the dark corner, be it the coffin ship, the sick bed, Flanders, Birmingham or Almeria, he’ll be there , cackling away in the snug at the good and bad of it all..Shane will see the lot of us down and fill them up again
This is a long shot but here it goes…..
My wife purchased tickets last Christmas for myself and her father for your gig in leisureland this coming Saturday 9th if Sept.
Unfortunately my wife’s father (Sean Kelly, Derrybrien, Co Galway) passed away from Cancer 2 weeks ago and never got the chance to go to your gig with me. Instead me and my wife will be attending and I was wondering if you had Johnny Jump Up in your playlist for Saturday as it was his favourite song.
I’ll let your music keep my spirits high on the night
Hello Christy,
Just thinking about the kids getting involved in folk music and feeling grateful for them. It’s great to see their lights shining.
The clearest memories from my childhood are of music. Dancing and singing in Wakefield Cathedral when I was 6. We’ve got the whole world in our hands.
Playing the recorder with hundreds of others at the halifax civic theatre when I was 9, begin the beguine.
Music was the highlight of it all.
I’m so glad they’re coming and getting involved with folk music.
Rebecca
Christy's reply
we were surrounded by songs and music from an early age….as chidren we all learned songs ….our Mother loved to sing and to listen to others singing…..70 years on I can still hear her coaxing us all
Done!
Signed up & champing at the bit young Mooresy!
Go well.Footy finals time here in New Holland – lotsa fever’n’fervour
My team not included – basket case ATM…
Looking forward to our trip & chance to hear the Christy playlisty
Wishing good things to the lot of you
Daniel Joseph Francis Harris (recovering Mick)
if you lived in Connemara you’d be known as Dan-Joe-Frank
G’day Christy:
Well, let’s see how this goes..
My wife, grandson & I have booked a cruise for next year & will be in Cork & Dublin mid May next year.
I’ll keep an eye out for your gigs & hopefully we can catch you live.
Fingers crossed. In the meantime Muchos thanx for the music & long may the melodies meander magnificently’ ‘mongst musings
All the best
Danny Harris -(here)
There may be dates in Dublin next May…..soon to be decided… if you sign up for newsletter you’ll get the nod….happy travels Hazzo……
Hey Christy, my wife Susanne and I were watching one of your YouTube videos back in March and she looked on her phone and found that there were tickets available to your show in Castlebar on Oct 28th. So we bought two tickets not knowing how we’d ever get there. A lot of planning has gone into this trip and we’re so excited to see you. For her, the first time and for me, I caught your gig with my son in 2007 in Coventry.
Susanne and I are huge fans and our favorite song,, that mirrors our 45 years together, is Voyage! If there is anyway that you can include that in the set at Castlebar we’d be most thankful.
All the best and looking forward to hearing and seeing you again.
Malcolm Rugeley
Hey Malcolm,
I’m excited myself….I’ve not played Castlebar for almost 10 years….first played “The Traveller’s Friend” Theatre in that Town on Christmas Eve 1972….I was singing with Planxty….there was snow and ice on the road as we journied home…there was no heater in the old Ford Transit van but we had a bottle of sweet Poitín to keep out the frostbite…
i hope you and Susanne have a great trip as you both sail together towards your Golden Anniversary….45 years together is a remarkable achievement….
“life is an ocean….love is a boat”
I dunno Christy.
Promises to be a lovely evening for ground hurling.
With hopefully no sign of those hungry,snobby, shitehawks.
Suit a wristy hurler with an eye for goal.
Come 8pm , be ready to face the puck out…..the stirabout is starting to bubble,gotta keep it short
Brendan Bracken?! That’s a right one. At some stage several years ago his remains were moved and repatriated to Galway, he’d be one of Rahoon Cemetery’s most famous occupants.
R. Ye must be landed. Do ye travel cross-country today or tomorrow? Long motorway trip, it can be sleep inducing. I’d recommended a stop along the way. There are two motorway service stations along the route.
A right one is right….a quare hawk for sure (fol de dee get outa dat)…there’s gotta be an intriguing movie lurking in the memoirs of Brendan Bracken
Hi Christy, was taking a ramble around pollardstown fen last Sunday morning. While on the boardwalk enjoying the sun, I came accross two lads on a small boat coming up the canal. I never thought that was accessible, so was chatting to the lads and they asked if I wanted to go for a spin. So I did!! We went up as far as the hanged man’s. On the way back as you come into the fen, there’s a fork in the canal, known as the point of Gibraltar, which I didn’t know. Anyway the lads on the boat reckon this is what you were referencing in St Brendans voyage, have to ask is this true?!
Currently learning about the curragh aquifer, it’s an amazing place!!
hey there Bangalore..tis a well known fact (around Gandogue Lane) that the Island of Gibralter was thus named by a Corporal out of the Rusty Rifles who took the soup and joined the BA on the Curragh Camp the mornin after a horrid feed of pints in Flanagans of Brownstown..the poor lad was half way between a blackout and the horrors when he took the kings shilling and found himself on the boat to Spain and him thinkin he was on the way to Holyhead
back in my day Pollardstown was a hunting ground..early kisses were stole up there… hand holdin and linkin…..a good place for mitchin too..Summer days around the Seven Springs
Guard Enright was the mitchin Guard but he never managed to track down me and the Meg
Hi Christy,
There was a 60th birthday bash for Shane in the NCH back in 2018.
It was January so you were probably in Vicar Street.
Finbar Furey sang Kitty.
Sinéad sang You’re the one.
Nick Cave was there too. Sadly Joe,Frank and Philip weren’t.
Michael D gave him a lifetime award. Amy Haben tells the tale of the night in the article A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday.
Looking forward to tomorrow nights gig.
Any chance of The Big Marque ?
Tabhair Aire
Bourkey
you’re puttin it up to me Bourkey
Hello Christy,
I thought it was a strange picture. Usually when there’s a piper about everyone is interested.
Lots of self importance in it, not from the piper.
I was surprised. I must be naive, I guess.
This ship is just about the do a 3 point turn out of Holyhead. It’s a lovely morning.
Rebecca
not at all naive….just curious to learn,…& happy to share newly discovered gems
Reminiscing tonight ,, and going back in time ,,thought came into my head might we get an updated Box Set next year ?
First one covered the first forty years 64/04 ,, would it be an idea to go with the next twenty 04/24? Or will you hold out for forty again ?
Love that Box Set there’s some gems contained within and not only the singing ,, one of my favourites is your “Tribute” to Mrs Thatcher !!!
I have a date set for 2044 release of Box Set 2 (2004-2044)….I’m hoping Bertie Ahern will launch from the GPO…that The Wolfe Tones, Knee Cap and The Corrs will provide entertainment and hospitality provided by….(tbc)
Hi Christy . Great to see you still packing them in ,, it’s a long way from Slane House early 70s
My son Conor , grandson of “The Conor Brennan” will be in attendance in Leisureland on Saturday night the 9th
Conor is making the journey from Brighton where he now resides with his English partner Biddy ,, Conor has attended many times Vicar St and Trim ,, but it will be Biddy’s first time to experience the pleasure of the unique experience a Christy gig is ,, and I know it will live long in the memory ,,, great if you could give both a shout out and maybe a few bars of The Honda Fifty or Yellow Furze woman would go down a treat ,, and hoping I will bump in too you down around The Cotton Mills or Ardmulchan sometime soon , thanking you in advance !
I remember that gig in Slane House from almost 50 years ago….my two cousins, Paddy & Harry Gibney from Stackallen were there as was my Cousin,the late, Paddy Power home on a visit from New York.The Family that ran Slane House knew of my own Family connection in the area…I was flying solo back then..I had recently acquired my own PA system and a small diesel van…I arrived in Slane around 5, set up my wee system, checked and tuned everything and then proceeded to get stuck into half a dozen pint bottles of Arthur Guinness as was my practice all those years ago… Finn Cullen was Stackallen there ( he was back in the TLT a few weeks ago)….my set back then would have included Joe McCann, Morrissey & The Russian Sailor,Hey Sandy,The Trip to Jerusalem, The Foxy Devil,Galtee Mountain Boy….I’m a bit hazy about what happened afterwards…Arthur from ST James’ Gate was kickin in…
its lovely to hear that your Conor is coming to Galway with Biddy….Nancy Power would smile at the good of that….such great memories of your Conor & Nancy and early visits to The Yellow Furze….my Godmother was Maeve Laffan from Beauparc….Herself and our Nancy were the closest of life-long friends…after Maeve died I discovered that she was a half sister to the legendary Brendan Bracken.. he was Churchill’s right hand man before, during and after the second World War…it was something neither Maeve nor Mammy ever mentioned….but they are all long gone…I may have Churchill in an upcoming song…he’s currently in the mix but may very well be eliminated when the final choice is made
Something I just wandered across
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid037n3RrbFFqKSXkfL2z4HKvtc5zkybnhphKpwzYrsoKjVQ2FLxdsoc38shiWAstfPcl&id=100056245968179
typical,Yeats and Gregory ignoring the music of the Piper Corley…. as it was and as it remains… The Right Honourable Garech De Brún, of Beerocracy fame, broke the mould…he loved and understood the music..even had a go at the pipes himself, much to the disdain of his fellow aristocrats….hungry, snobbish, shitehawks, the most of them
Hello Christy,
I have to agree. My childhood was completely free of devices. It was all grass and streams, hills and oak trees, hawthorn and sticklebacks. Plus the music lessons. Piano from 7. I’d turned down the violin at 5. In those days a device was something you wore to show you were a member of some group or other.
And yet, these days I’m very grateful for my device. It let’s me get to know people I have a lot in common with but might never be lucky enough to meet. It’s great for introverts, we sad people who can be found talking to the cat at parties. The cat thing could be something many musicians have in common?
Towards the end of her life, my mother had several strokes. When she lost the use of her right hand her mobile was suddenly out of bounds. She kept in touch with many people using it. Her world was suddenly much smaller.
I feel that you were very lucky to have the mother you had. The source of music in our house was always me. And my brother too, but he was always more into art, scribbling away at his cartoons.
We’ll be setting off for Anglesey this afternoon.
Rebecca
would’nt swap my early childhood for everything the world has to offer in 2023
Hi Christy. Myself and my wife shall be going to your City Hotel Armagh gig on 19 October 2023. That’s also same date as my wife’s 50th birthday (shush!!..). She’s a huge fan and we’ve seen you gig countless times these last 25 years or so. Her name is Vornie (short for Mavourneen). A wee shout out at the gig would make her day and birthday! Many thanks Christy. See you in October !! Keep er lit!
Good man Mickey…the early bird catches the worm
Christy
Miracles happen, praise be!
A couple of years ago I had mentioned to you of my mum Agnes. A huge health scare put her close to the other side but the fight remained. A triumphant return to form with slightly less mobility than previously has seen her back up on two feet and we are booked on a flight westbound in October to come see you in Armagh. My wife Michelle, myself and Agnes will be in attendance and sure we’ll bring my Dad, Frank, along for the craic too. To be able to come see you again is just magical and I’m sure it’ll be a great night. We cannot wait.
All the best
Frankie
sound man Frankie…you’ll bring a bit of the barrowland atmosphere acroos with ye…welcome back Agnes…the Armagh gig is always a cracker..great room
Christy,
I was chatting today with a pal about Shane, he mused that there would be a huge outpouring of grief when the bard dies.
However i suggested we should be celebrating a life’s work during life, rather than the wailing and eulogising that the dead cannot hear ( and is sometime wailed from a bandwagon).
Pretty sure i saw a late late show special for shane, which is the right way , for me at least.
Anyway, leopardstown saturday, curragh sunday, cashel ( including the fantastic folk village museum) monday and laytown tuesday. If the gut, wallet and liver survive that is. Sadly no planned music this trip.
However i see Andy Irvine and Donal Lunny are at Drogheda Arts relatively soon….food for thought.
Rory
that lad wont be going anywhere..already his spirit is imbued across the land…from Puckaune to Ardoyne, Shinrone to Gleann na Smól, we all carry a little bit of him, I only met him 4 or 5 times in my life..hes not a man you’ll meet everyday….he comes in somewhere every night of the week at 18/1…..he lives on the inside track sometimes well out of it but never far from the source…hes a divvil for the dark corner, be it the coffin ship, the sick bed, Flanders, Birmingham or Almeria, he’ll be there , cackling away in the snug at the good and bad of it all..Shane will see the lot of us down and fill them up again
Hi Christy
My wife Karen will be with me on Saturday night ❤️❤️❤️
Gearoid
thats more like it
Christy, and Rebecca
The mention of music and children is good, bettered perhaps by the laughter of our children.
Rory
laughing singing skipping chasing tigging…not a device to be seen
Hi Christy
This is a long shot but here it goes…..
My wife purchased tickets last Christmas for myself and her father for your gig in leisureland this coming Saturday 9th if Sept.
Unfortunately my wife’s father (Sean Kelly, Derrybrien, Co Galway) passed away from Cancer 2 weeks ago and never got the chance to go to your gig with me. Instead me and my wife will be attending and I was wondering if you had Johnny Jump Up in your playlist for Saturday as it was his favourite song.
I’ll let your music keep my spirits high on the night
Gearoid
you’ve left an important name out ??? gearóid and
Hello Christy,
Just thinking about the kids getting involved in folk music and feeling grateful for them. It’s great to see their lights shining.
The clearest memories from my childhood are of music. Dancing and singing in Wakefield Cathedral when I was 6. We’ve got the whole world in our hands.
Playing the recorder with hundreds of others at the halifax civic theatre when I was 9, begin the beguine.
Music was the highlight of it all.
I’m so glad they’re coming and getting involved with folk music.
Rebecca
we were surrounded by songs and music from an early age….as chidren we all learned songs ….our Mother loved to sing and to listen to others singing…..70 years on I can still hear her coaxing us all
Was looking to see if I could send you a book about my family’s quest for justice.