Cricklewood - Christy Moore 1979

[karezza6]

Creepy freak.

[showaddy11]

i have little reguard for london a wee bit like ottile paterson[mountains of mourne] i went down to watch mr bob at earls court[street legal]and visited irish relations of my wife. darlin people. london? there is a place for it. pick a windae or someone elses orifice. kind reguards for the irish that were left to starve yet had to come over and build london toon

[IrishandFolkmusic]

If it wasn't for Cricklewood's Irish community and the galtymore I wouldn't be alive! 

[TheNova90]

Am I right in stating that Tony Grehan from Boyle who is a friend of Christy's, put the music to this poem written by the late great john B Keane.

Boyle1967

[GSlanty]

Does anybody know the chords to this song?

[CRY5IZ]

One person saw silence !

[bremal20]

Many a good night was held in the Galtymore !!!! I(Ashtons) i

[ironmunroe25]

The Galtymore was "great" if you had had several pints in The Cricklewood Tavern or The Crown!

Kevin

[ducdejoyeuse]

@maxvolmue99 you hit the nail on the head, escape was not a choice it was the attempted destruction of a culture and a people, by economic means, they tried everything else to break the Irish Soul, but you cannot hide from the truth.....Why is KIng Menes first King of Egypt buried in County Tyrone??? Why is Queen Scotia,daughter of Akhenaton who gave her name to Nova Scotia and Scotland, buried outside Tralee, why is Queen Tea, buried near Tara...????

[floodma2]

Great song, beautiful!!

[PoblachtNaHEireann]

brit scum



[CredoCatholicJournal]

They plan to knock down houses in Ireland and houses are empty.Could they not bring the Irish in England home and house them?

[kieran34567]

if only it was that simple a lot a these men couldnt get work in ireland yeah remember that day wippersnapper?so ya reckon they should have stayed in ireland and let their families starve?i know plenty a men who only went to england to earn a crust so think b4 ya make bigotted comments...who`s the thick prick now

[petrolbom]

@kieran34567 they didnt leave to feed their families. they left because the repbulic of ireland is a shit hole, always has been and always will be. they came to england because deep down inside they wanted a better life. they wanted to be british. it doesnt matter how you reply to this, you know its the truth.

[flowrt]

@petrolbom What??? A better life?? In England?? I´m neither English nor Irish, but I´ve been to both countries...and come on...bad food, worse feather, ugly girls, rubbish everywhere, fights at night....no thnx

[freddo27]

@flowrt Ugly Girls? I don't know where you went mate, but you didn't go out on a Friday night, for sure.

[antiracistskin69]

@petrolbom bigot

[niallwallpaper]

@petrolbom . Brits are the largest immigrants in the Republic of Ireland 10% of the population, so they know something you dont!

[ceolnaghra]

The Galtymore Was a great place,I spent my youth here in the 70's!

[dinty66]

yo go the mayhem highgate is only a whistle stop away

[Mucckker1]

Keep it real

[rabbithog]

look lads if you dont like a country dont go to it you thick cunts

[maxvolmue99]

@rabbithog - its easy to say this - but england offered an apparently easy escape to the young irish in the 50s' through to the 80's.......just because people went there it didnt mean it was good and pleasant - christy sings these songs to capture the scene of the refugee in an another mans land.and that land happened to be owned by the very rulers that ironically caused these young people to leave home.with suppression and trade restrictions and penal laws holding back ireland's development

[clarrisina]

Christy we love you!!! great man and make us proud!

[TONYIRISHPROUD]

christy as good as ever mo chara ! BELFAST SALUTES YOU

[morrishickey]

Brilliant stuff!

[Uladach]

Cricklewood Broadway 6-7am, Mon-Fri,take your pick(sic)

[Paulsixsmith]

they got paid well and drink it and spent it on whores. Plenty of irishmen were wise and were success.

[seabreeze08]

All you Ray O'Rourkes, Mcnicholas', Murphys,Mcalpines,Byrnes and the rest, just remember that you made your pots of gold from the Irish men you left begging on the streets of London. That is what this song is all about. . . . .M Boyle, Edinburgh

[satyrix1]

Well said, To be honest our own goverment in Ireland should have taken theese poor souls home a long time ago...

[GreenandredMayoman]

WIMPY

We Import more paddy's each year,

[mop2mop]

ah cricklewood and kilburn, an miath ar fhad

[oxfordeddie]

Grat discovery, this song. Says a lot about the old Ireland. I have heard a lot of stories about people being sent to England to save the Irish authorities the cost from sending them to jail back home. This song confirms the practice!

[satarrant]

Fuckin cricklewood, Kilburn more like.

[hamrzlawnlake]

Knows where tunes come from. Tks Christy.

[markoconroy]

he's the spit of ur man from eastenders phil mitchell... lookin ROUGH but sounds great.. nice one!

[6079eoin]

I think that this song was written by John B Keane, mighty stuff

[rsfrsf0987]

great song legend