* 1945 – Christy Moore, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Planxty and Moving Hearts )

It is most famously sung by the Irish bard Christy Moore.

The legendary Irish folk singer, Christy Moore, was also strongly influenced by Woody in his seminal 1970 album Prosperous, giving renditions of " The Ludlow Massacre " and Bob Dylan's " Song to Woody ".

Examples of these include Joan Fontaine ( real name Joan de Havilland ), sister to Olivia de Havilland, Luka Bloom ( real name Kevin Barry Moore ), brother of Christy Moore ; and Mike McGear ( brother of Paul McCartney ).

* Christy Moore on his album The Box Set 1964-2004

* Christy Moore, folk musician, was born in Newbridge.

Luka Bloom's brother Christy Moore also has a song, written by Bloom but recorded by Moore, called ' The City of Chicago ,' that chronicles the effects of the Famine and the subsequent mass emigration.

Later, singer-songwriters such as Christy Moore were inspired by American popular folk singers, and they took to modernizing and adapting Irish music for modern audiences.

Acts that played included The Prodigy, The Cranberries, Blur, Bryan Adams, Van Morrison, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, The Saw Doctors and Christy Moore.

* Musician and Producer Declan Sinnott has worked with Moving Hearts, Mary and Frances Black and more recently as guitarist with Christy Moore

* Christy Moore, Irish singer and songwriter

Planxty is an Irish folk music band formed in the 1970s, consisting initially of Christy Moore ( vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán ), Dónal Lunny ( bouzouki, guitars ), Andy Irvine ( vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica ), and Liam O ' Flynn ( uilleann pipes, tin whistle ).

In 1972 Christy Moore released his second album Prosperous, which was recorded during the summer of 1971 in a house in the village of the same name and featured his old schoolmate Dónal Lunny, along with Andy Irvine ( who'd been working as a duo with Lunny ), and Liam O ' Flynn ( with whom both Moore and Lunny had played at local sessions ).

( On the 2004 retrospective, The Christy Moore Box Set, a rough quality recording of the song " Raggle Taggle Gypsy " from this concert was included, complete with the audience's reaction.

O ’ Toole had earlier worked on a documentary about the band for the RTE television show No Disco, which Christy Moore credits with inspiring the reunion.

Christy Moore and Dónal Lunny had been friends since schooldays, Lunny having taught Christy how to play both guitar & bodhrán.

Next to leave was Christy Moore, in the spring of 1974.

The divided attention of two bands proved too much, and in 1983, Dónal Lunny and Christy Moore left to concentrate on Moving Hearts.

A formative influence on Planxty and in particular on Christy Moore was the singing of Irish Traveller John " Jacko " Reilly who hailed from Boyle, Co. Roscommon.

* Moore, Christy One Voice-My Life In Song, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002, ISBN 0-340-76840-1, ISBN 978-0-340-76840-2

Christy Moore's song " Minds Locked Shut " on the album Graffiti Tongue is all about the events of the day, and names the dead civilians.

* Singer / pianist / songwriter Dave Frishberg's song " Matty " is a sentimental tribute to Christy.

* The band Family Groove Company has a song on their first album Reachin ' titled " Christy " that relates some of Mathewson's achievements.

He wrote " In the Hills of Shiloh ", a poignant song about the aftermath of the Civil War, which was recorded by The New Christy Minstrels, Judy Collins, Bobby Bare and others.

* Edwin Pearce Christy ( 1815 – 1862 ), minstrel, known for performing the Stephen Foster song " Old Folks at Home " ( aka " Swanee River ").

In 1849, he published Foster's Ethiopian Melodies, which included the successful song Nelly Was a Lady, made famous by the Christy Minstrels.

* " Tampico " is the title of a 1945 song composed by US artist Gene Roland and produced by jazz musician and conductor Stan Kenton, with lead vocals by June Christy.

Many artists have recorded the song, including Andreas Scholl, Bradley Kincaid, Joan Baez, Shirley Collins, Doris Day, The Everly Brothers, Roger Quilter, Texas Gladden, Nic Jones, John Travolta, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton ( with Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh ), Maxine Sullivan, Pete Seeger, Tom Rush, Angelo Branduardi ( Italian version titled ' Piano Piano " in 1983's album Cercando l ' oro and another Italian version titled " Barbriallen " in 2011's album Così è se mi pare ), John Jacob Niles, Merle Travis, Bob Dylan, Martin Carthy, Colin Meloy, Michael Hurley, Art Garfunkel, Simon & Garfunkel, Burl Ives, The Grateful Dead, Dando Shaft, Eddy Arnold, Moses " Clear Rock " Platt, Sonne Hagal, Frank Turner, The New Christy Minstrels, Blackmore's Night and Jim Moray.

The song has also been recorded by singers and folk groups such as Roger Whittaker, The Irish Rovers, Seven Nations, Off Kilter, King Creosote, Brobdingnagian Bards, Firkin, Charlie Zahm, and Christy Moore.

Christy Moore and Luke Kelly along with local Blantyre singer / songwriter Drew Semple recorded well-known versions of the traditional song about this disaster.

Some songs were banned for political reasons such as Paul McCartney and Wings song Give Ireland Back to the Irish in the 1970s, or in the 1980s Christy Moore's, Back home in Derry since it was written by Bobby Sands.

Christy Moore, Paddy Reilly and Jim McCann also featured on the CD ; Moore sings a tribute to Luke Kelly, and McCann sings the song " I Loved the Ground She Walked Upon ", written by Phil Coulter and Ralph McTell.

A now-defunct music festival which took place near the town is celebrated in a song of the same name written by the Irish folk singer, Christy Moore.

The song was brought back to life in the 1960s, when several artists of the new folk movement, including Bob Dylan, The Kingston Trio, Trini Lopez, Jay and the Americans, and The New Christy Minstrels all recorded versions, inspired by its political message.

* Christy Moore has written and recorded a song called " Veronica " which appears on his Live in Dublin ( 2006 ) CD.

James Larkin was memorialized by the New York Irish rock band Black 47, in their song The Day They Set Jim Larkin Free and The Ballad of James Larkin was recorded by Christy Moore and also The Dubliners.

His name is mentioned in the song " Lisdoonvarna " by Christy Moore

* Irish folk artist Christy Moore recorded a song called " Blantyre Explosion ".

Written for performance by the New York blackface troupe Christy's Minstrels, the song has E. P. Christy, the troupe's leader, appearing as its creator on early printings of the sheet music.

Nancy Spain, a song by Barney Rush, made famous by an adaptation by Christy Moore, is another example of the use of saudade in contemporary Irish music, the chorus of which is:

* " Green Island " ( also known as The Island ), a song by Ewan MacColl on his album Naming of Names also recorded by Christy Moore on his album Smoke and Strong Whiskey

The ban by the Irish courts of the song " They never came home " by Christy Moore along with the original version of the album " Ordinary Man " on which it appeared has apparently never been overturned.