In today's story we visit the site of one of Ireland's greatest tragedies...The Stardust Nightclub fire of 1981. This is a story of a long fight for justice, of the price of speaking out against authority, as well as, the many safety violations that came to light later. Blessings to all.

Places Everyone!...Venue #21/25: The Stardust Nightclub, Artane, Dublin, Ireland https://tommacinneswriter.com/2025/05/26/places-everyone-venue-21-25-the-stardust-nightclub-artane-dublin-ireland/ ##ChristyMoore, ##Ireland, ##PlacesEveryone, ##StardustNightclub, ##TheyNeverCameHOme, ##ValentinesDay

#OnThisDay in 1945, #ChristyMoore, Irish folk singer and songwriter, born in Newbridge, County Kildare, Ireland. 🎉🎊🎁🎈🎂
#HappyBirthday #80

Christy Moore was born on 7 May 1945 in Newbridge County Kildare. His first album, Paddy on the Road was recorded with Dominic Behan in 1969. In 2007 he was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.

Ordinary Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIh5dUOz824

#Ireland #IrishHistory #IrishMusic #ChristyMoore #OnThisDay

Sunflowers - Mike Harding (Sung by Christy Moore)

She confronted soldiers on her street
Ignoring guns, grenades, and gibbering headsets
She offered them a handful of sunflower seeds

"Keep them in your pockets, boys
That flowers may blossom from your graves
Forever a monument to the children you have murdered
And the families you have destroyed

#Ukraine #Sunflowers #ChristyMoore #SlavaUkraini

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#ordinaryman #christymoore

Christy Moore's Dunnes Stores is a timely reminder that the Irish siding with the oppressed is not a recent phenomenon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TER_M3KNVCE

#IrishMusic #ChristyMoore #DunnesStores #IrishSolidarityWithPalestine

“ Let me tell you a story, I'll be quick as I can.
Terrible news from the #HolyLand
Pictures of children etched in my mind.
Buried in the rubble, on the firing line.
The Jews and the Arabs lived one and the same.
A thousand years, then the Zionists came.
Came like a river, came like a flood.
Al #Nakba was written on the wall in blood."

https://www.hotpress.com/music/album-review-christy-moore-a-terrible-beauty-23058299

#Palestine #Ireland #Solidarity #ChristyMoore

Ted Tocks Covers

Fairytale of New York

Originally posted on December 18, 2023

Remembering Shane MacGowan!

“I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So, Happy Christmas
I love you, baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true”

#shanemacgowan #thepogues #alandoyle #billybragg #caitoriordan #christymoore #doloreskeane #edsheeran #florenceandthemachine #jasonkelce #jefftweedy #JemFiner #jonbonjovi#kirstymaccoll #puddlespityparty #ronankeating

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2023/12/18/fairytale-of-new-york-i-can-see-a-better-time-when-all-our-dreams-come-true-musicislife-tedtockscovers/

OMFG I just got a ticket to see Christy Moore at Vicar Street. I've been dreaming of this gig for over 20 years.
#ceol #ChristyMoore #VicarStreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZmfMc7lzQo

"St. Brendan's Voyage" is a modern #IrishFolk song, written by #ChristyMoore, and released on his 1985 album #OrdinaryMan. The song relates #theLegendaryJourney of #SaintBrendan in a comic and fanciful way.

Here we have #folk artist #ChristyMoore of #Ireland.

https://youtu.be/LIh5dUOz824
https://youtu.be/s6EhcP81Hg4
https://youtu.be/7MJRmA99kHc
https://youtu.be/NMVW3_VVXpo
#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic

Fancy hearing a song about dreaming a dream?
No, not that one.
Nor that one either.
Head yourself on over to youtube now for the premiere of Delirium Tremens!
https://youtu.be/kS6AU21Akbo

#TheLongestJohns #FolkMusic #FolkSong #DeliriumTremens #ChristyMoore

This song, originally by American folk artist #JimPage, was performed by Irish folk artist #ChristyMoore on Irish teevee programme #TheTonightShow, in honour of #Ireland recognizing #Palestine. No American show has the stones to share it, so I will. 😉

If they come in the morning
- Jack Warshaw 1976.

The boys in blue are only a few of the everyday cops on the beat,
The C.I.D., Branchmen, informers and spies do their jobs just as well;
Behind them the men who tap phones, take photos, program computers and files,
And the man who tells them when to come and take you to your cell.

No time for goodbye, no time to ask why,
And the sound of the siren's the cry of the morning.

#christymoore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_They_Come_in_the_Morning_(song)

@liamdv4 @richardbloomfield there's a line in a #ChristyMoore song
"Brandy and port,
Like pouring water in a barrel of sawdust"

The #RichMenNorthOfRichmond discourse shouldn't even be a thing.

Look, if you want a proper song about the disenfranchised working man that doesn't denigrate anyone except the rich, listen #OrdinaryMan by #ChristyMoore instead.

It's a far better song musically and all.

No pasarán!

#ChristyMoore #NoPasarán #NoPasaran #VivaLaQuintaBrigada
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio&list=RD4Sje2VYw99A&index=3

People on twitter calling Christy Moore a traitor remind me why I don't post over there any more.

Imagine the sheer arrogance required to be a frightened keyboard warrior with no real understanding of the world beyond your cosy social-media hate group, and insulting one of our wisest artists, now into his 7th decade of social activism.

Be like Christy. Not like the bigots who are screeching at him.

#ChristyMoore #RefugeesWelcome

#JukeboxFridayNight #MistakesWereMade

Christy Moore - Joxer goes to Stuttgart

There are at least two mistakes in this, from an English point of view, sorry tale - the engine overheats 'from long hauling duty free', and the Germans daughter shows up in Ballyfermot

Top trivia: Damien Duff picked this for the Chelsea players compilation CD that was released in 2006.

Genius left foot, genius musical selection

#ChelseaFC #ChristyMoore

https://youtu.be/N4xl_FgEwrg

@Faustus67 Definitely #Apple #RichardThompson #ChristyMoore #Planxty

Also #Pentangle #Steeleyespan #EC #JethroTull etc. etc. 😄