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Christy Moore and the Making of a Traditional Irish Rebel Song
Naessens, Mollie
Naessens, Mollie
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2025
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https://doi.org/10.34944/h3q0-bc05
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Between 1968 and 1998, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland were divided by “the Troubles,” an ethno-nationalist conflict fought between paramilitary groups who sought to maintain Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom or achieve independence through Irish reunification. Christy Moore (b. 1945), an Irish folk singer renowned for his outspoken protest songs, spent the Troubles performing at political rallies to protest the mistreatment of political prisoners under a regime of censorship that saw his music banned from the radio and an album release raided by special police forces. In this paper, I use newspaper articles, radio recordings, and interviews to argue that Christy Moore’s music came to be considered traditional because of his presence at political rallies, use of traditional instruments, references to events in Irish history in his lyrics, and radio bans, which supported narratives of oppression popular in nationalist music.
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