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I'm thankful for every moment. Al Green Thanksgiving, 2013

Hi Crushers:

Have a very happy Thanksgiving - I hope you can spend it with your families. Thank you for listening to Celtic Crush

Hammond travel now has details of the 2014 trip to Ireland. It will run from Nov. 18-24 and take in The Cliffs of Moher, Galway, Mayo, Sligo, W.B. Yeats grave, Donegal, Derry, Giants Causeway, Belfast, Dublin, Wexford & Mary's Bar. We'll take you off the beaten path and introduce you to the real people as well as the historical and literary Ireland. The trip will be immediately after the disbanding of Black 47 - in fact you can attend the last concert in New York City on Nov. 15th - then leave from Kennedy Airport and attend my first solo gig on Nov 22nd at Wexford Arts Center where I first performed. For details and to book early drop a line to [email protected] or call 866-486-8772

LAST CALL

Thanks so much to all of you who have supported our drive to fund Black 47's final CD, LAST CALL. We've now reached 41% of the recording costs. You can become a part of the album by pledging to download the finished CD at PledgeMusic for $10 and be well ahead of the general public. There are many more items and experiences you can pledge for, including an opportunity to sing with us on Shanty Irish Baby, get an autographed, hand-painted bodhrán (see picture above) or have Larry Kirwan help you with your song, play or novel.

There you'll also get access to a special 'pledger only' part of the Black 47 PledgeMusic site where we'll share rough mixes, pics and videos from the recording. LAST CALL will be released in late January 2014.

NEW YEAR'S EVE IN CONNOLLY'S, 121 W. 45TH St. NYC 212-597-5126

Tickets now on sale at Connolly's for Black 47's Last New Year's Eve in Times Square or online at http://black47.tickets.musictoday.com/Black47/moreInfo.aspx?event=158424&outlet=1843

BLACK 47'S 25th. and FINAL ST. PATRICK'S DAY SHOW IN NYC BB KING's, 42nd Street/Times Square March 17th - Show 7pm, Doors 5pm (Right after the Parade) Tickets on sale now at BB'S or at http://www.bbkingblues.com/bio.php?id=3374 "I'll love you forever on St. Patrick's Day"

You can now hear CELTIC CRUSH anytime ON DEMAND Two shows always available for listening. But don't desert me on Saturday mornings 7- 10amET or Tuesday nights 11pmET on The Spectrum, Ch. 28

For those on Facebook go to Fans of Celtic Crush. Christopher Carroll adds videos and relevant information on Saturday morning while the show is broadcasting http://www.facebook.com/groups/98160297580/

Some upcoming Black 47 & Larry Kirwan gigs. More info: www.black47.com

Dec 28 Towne Crier, Beacon, NY Dec 31 Last New Year's Eve at Connolly's, NYC Jan 17 Noble Maritime Museum, Staten Island, NY (Larry Kirwan solo) Jan 18 First Universalist Church, Salem, MA Feb 8 Connolly's, NYC Feb 22 Madison Theatre/Molloy College, Rockville Center, NY Feb 28 Tellus 360, Lancaster, PA Mar 3 Ciccone Theatre, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ Mar 8 Boulton Center, Bay Shore, NY Mar 9 St. Augustine Celtic Music & Heritage Festival, FL Mar 17 BB Kings, NYC Mar 21 Bridge Street Live, Collinsville, CT May 24 Blackthorn Resort, East Durham, NY May 25 Chicago Gaelic Park Irish Festival, Oak Forest, IL May 26 Chicago Gaelic Park Irish Festival, Oak Forest, IL June 7 Staten Island Irish Festival, NY Aug 1 Dublin Irish Festival, OH Aug 2 Dublin Irish Festival, OH Sept 13 Irish 2000, Ballston Spa, NY Nov 8 International Irish Famine Commemoration, New Orleans, LA

To find Playlists, Books/Movies/Poetry scroll down. Talk to you Saturday.

All the best

Larry Kirwan

LIVERPOOL FANTASY

Larry Kirwan's first novel, Liverpool Fantasy now available for download: kindle nook scribd

It's 1987, The Beatles are gathering in Liverpool for a reunion. It's been 25 years since John Lennon walked out during the recording of Please Please Me. Liverpool Fantasy examines life as a rock 'n roll musician, and a world without the Beatles.

"Wow, this bloke Kirwan can write! He's got the Liverpudlian patois down to a t-bone. When you read what the four lads have to say and how the say it, well you'll think you're in A Hard Day's Night. And the lads - 25 years on - I love it...It's a hoot and a half! Good on ya, mate." -- Ray Manzarek, The Doors

Black 47 Merchandise

For all Black 47 t-shirts, CDs, DVDs and autographed copies of Larry Kirwan's book www.black47.com

A MESSAGE TO YOU, RUDY

What do you think of Robert Anthony Noonan? Doesn't ring a bell? Well, he's originally from Buffalo but could just as well be hailed as the Mayor of Bleecker Street. Oh, you mean Willie Nile? Yeah, the very man!

I don't know when I first met Willie thought I do remember his record company president, the legendary Clive Davis, boasting that Willie would be the next Dylan. Back in the early 80's that was akin to a death sentence. Willie has had a number of near misses in the superstar stakes but I'm firmly convinced this is his time. Why, because he's got great songs and the wherewithal to deliver them onstage. His new album, American Ride, is a revelation.

It hasn't been easy for Willie, but then again, the man wanted it all - the family, the music career, the home life, the bright life. He raised four children and still managed to hone his craft and turn out a number of top-class albums - all the while developing his legendary stage presence. There were times he had to do without himself in order to put food on the table for his family. That's the Buffalo Irish ethic. You do it, you do it quietly, and you only talk about it years later when it's history. "We all got through it, and were tougher and wiser for the experience," he shrugs, although those of us aware of the full story know the cost.

That's what a dream does for you - and no matter what calamity befell him Willie always kept his eyes on the prize. Probably no surprise since he's descended from Noonans, Kiernans, Kanes, and Gallaghers; from an early age he was determined to fuse the immigrant poetry of their lives with the rock & roll he grew up listening to on FM Radio. That's what propelled him onto the mean streets of New York as a young man. He got a job in the mailroom of a publishing house and played the Bleecker Street strip at night, burning the candle up the middle as well as at both ends. Ending up with an illness that one doctor feared was Leukemia he was forced to return to Buffalo for some years to restore his health.

No one on the strip doubted that he'd be back and his friends were always there for him. Willie too was never less than encouraging to his peers: I don't know how many nights I saw him in Paddy Reilly's bopping to the beat while urging on Black 47. But he never lacked for his own fans. The late great Mayoman, Pat Kenny booked him numerous times, and it was while performing at Kenny's Castaways that the New York Times gave him a spectacular endorsement on his return to New York. him a spectacular endorsement on his return to New York.

Bruce Springsteen is another admirer and has invited him onstage at Shea Stadium and other arenas. I asked Willie about that experience - "It was great, man," he replied with a glint in his eye, "except that one night Clarence Clemons' ring fell off and rolled over center stage. When I tried to retrieve it for him, I looked up and Bruce was staring down, no doubt wondering what I was doing on my knees in front of him."

Bono too thinks the world of Willie. Speaking about American Ride, he enthused, "There are a few Americas here to discover - the mythic, the magic, the very real. It's one of the great guides to unraveling the mystery that is the troubled beauty of America."

Willie's family is grown now. He raised his kids and did the right thing. But the dream still shimmers before him. He's on the road much these days, in Europe and all across America, punching the Rock & Roll clock and enjoying every moment of it. There's a lot of ear candy out there - mucho gloss with very little substance. When you want to get to the heart of the matter and come face to face with the real deal, Robert Anthony Noonan is your man - or should I say, Mr. Willie Nile.

ROCKIN' THE BRONX For a digital edition of Rockin' The Bronx go to Amazon.com, also available at bn.com, smashwords, scribd autographed hard copies at www.black47.com

The Bronx is burning. John Lennon is being stalked, Bobby Sands is dying, but life goes on in the immigrant bars of Bainbridge Avenue as Sean arrives from Ireland searching for his girlfriend, Mary. He finds a lot more, including Danny McCorley, a hard-hitting, book-loving, construction worker with a shadowy past in the Irish Republican movement & a secret...

Green Suede Shoes (a memoir) is also availabe at www.black47.com or for digital download at amazon.com or b&n.com

LARRY KIRWAN'S CELTIC INVASION CD

Celtic Invasion contains songs by The Waterboys, Peatbog Faeries, Runrig, Black 47, Hothouse Flowers, Pat McGuire, Barleyjuice, John Spillane, Shilelagh Law, Celtic Cross, Blaggards, and Garrahan's Ghost. Copies may be purchased at www.black47.com Digital downloads at www.celtic-invasion.com

Books & Movies I'm including many recommendations. If you would like to just get started and get an overview of Ireland and its history, why not try any of the first books. They will get you going and you may never stop.

Irish History for Dummies

Ten Men Dead - The Story of the 1981 Hunger Strike - David Beresford. This is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand modern Irish history.

The Commitments, The Van or pretty much any book by Roddy Doyle. Easy to read, lots of fun but will also introduce you to the complexities of modern Ireland.

Michael Collins : a biography by Tim Pat Coogan, 1990. ISBN 0-09-968580-9.

The Yellow Birds - Kevin Powers

Transatlantic - Colum McCann

The Testament of Mary or Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Country Girl - Edna O'Brien

Whitey's Payback - TJ English

Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes - William Kennedy

Ancient Light - John Banville

Astray - Emma Donoghue

A Second Life - Dermot Bolger

The Bogman - Walter Macken

The Last of the High Kings - Ferdia Mac Anna

On Canaan's Side - Sebastian Barry

Solace - Belinda McKeon

Paradise Alley - Kevin Baker

The Outside Boy - Jeanine Cummins

Where Have You Been - Joseph O'Connor

City of Bohane - Kevin Barry

Saints and Sinners - Edna O'Brien

The Great Hunger - Cecil Woodham-Smith is a dispassionate but striking book on the Potato Famine of 1845-47 that caused so many Irish to emigrate to the US. The Orange and the Green - GA Henty. A novel written around 1900 about the events surrounding the Battle of the Boyne and the Siege of Limerick. Originally for young adult audience this reads very well for adults.

The Man Who Never Returned - Peter Quinn

Tabloid City - Pete Hamill

Against The Tide (an autobiography) - Dr. Noel Browne

Lost Boys of the Bronx, The Oral History of the Ducky Boys Gang - James Hannon

Troubles, JG Farrell

South Lawn Plot - Ray O'Hanlon

Thy Tears Might Cease - Michael Farrell

Country Girls Trilogy - Edna O'Brien. Three wonderful books written by a great writer and a rebel in the soul. Ms. O'Brien is as readable as she is profound.

Borstal Boy - Brendan Behan

Alistair MacLeod's novel, "No Great Mischief" about the Clan MacDonald who came to Canada in 1779.

Donnelly Trilogy of plays, by James Reaney concerning the Irish-Canadian experience.

Tarry Flynn or The Green Fool - Patrick Kavanagh He is better known as a poet - do check out his poetry. But these two small books contain a wealth of information of what it was like to grow up in rural Ireland of the last century.

The Savage City by TJ English - if you'd like to know about crime and passion in NYC in the 60's and 70's this is the book for you. Powerful!

The Collected Stories by William Trevor - perhaps the greatest living short story writer

This is Your Brain on Shamrocks by Mike Farragher (by the Irish Voice music editor - want to plumb the depths of your Irish pscyhe? Mike's your man!)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man or Dubliners - James Joyce. These are two excellent and slim books to get a feel for Sunny Jim's work before you make the life decision to tackle Ulysses. The Dead from Dubliners is perhaps the greatest novella/short story ever written. Don't despair if you find yourself bogged down in Ulysses; it's happened to us all. Just have a drink, pop open any page and begin to read aloud. But whatever you do, don't miss Molly Bloom's closing soliloquy. It's one of the wonders of literature - and more than that - in a way that words fail to do justice.

Eamonn DeValera: a biography by Tim Pat Coogan

The IRA or The Troubles by Tim Pat Coogan

The Secret Scripture or any novel or play by Sebastian Barry. A very modern writer who delves into the past. Barry is true poet who uses beautiful language and creates unforgettable characters that leave a mark on you.

Astrakhan Cloak - Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill or any collection of her poetry. An earthy, yet spiritual, look into the soul of a powerful Irish woman.

Collected Stories - Frank O'Connor. A very readable writer with a remarkable insight into the Irish soul. Also try his biography of Michael Collins, The Big Fellah, should Coogan's be unavailable or too bloody dauntingly long. Five Points - Tyler Anbinder. This wonderful book will give you a history of the Irish and other immigrants when they arrived in 19th Century New York City.

The Captains and the Kings - Jennifer Johnston

Station Island or any collection of poems by Seamus Heaney

Horse Latitudes or any collection of poems by Paul Muldoon

Good Behaviour and Time After Time by Molly Keane

Fools of Fortune and any collection of his short stories by William Trevor

Amongst Women or The Dark - John McGahern

Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan

Star of the Sea - Joseph O'Connor or any of Joe's hilarious travel books.

At Swim Two Birds or The Poor Mouth or The Poor Mouth - Flann O'Brien

Strumpet City - James Plunkett

How Many Miles to Babylon - Jennifer Johnston

The Book of Evidence - John Banville

Collared - Mike Farragher

Banished Children of Eve - Peter Quinn

The Gathering - Anne Enright

The Year of the French - Thomas Flanagan

To Hell or Barbados - Sean O'Callaghan

A Drinking Life - Pete Hamill

Let The Great World Spin - Colum McCann

A Traitor's Kiss: The Life of Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Fintan O'Toole

Poetry My Arse - Brendan Kennelly

All Souls: A Family Story From Southie and Easter Rising - Michael Patrick MacDonald

Ironweed, Legs (Diamond) or any book by William Kennedy - a Joycean narrative of the great city of Albany, NY

The Westies or Paddy Whacked by T.J. English

Green Suede Shoes - Larry Kirwan Will give you a sense of Wexford, a special town that you may choose to visit, in the first chapters, along with with a relatively dry-eyed look at a life in the music business of the last 30 or more years.

MOVIES

Adam & Paul A Man of No Importance Angel Grabbers Hunger The Guard The Boys From County Clare Breakfast on Pluto The Magdalene Sisters Veronica Guerin In America The General Once The Crying Game Into The West Ryan's Daughter Some Mother's Son In Bruges My Left Foot The Butcher Boy Bloody Sunday Hear My Song The Quiet Man In The Name of the Father Michael Collins Odd Man Out An Everlasting Piece The Field The Commitments The Van The Snapper Man of Aran The Informer Shake Hands with the Devil Trojan Eddie The Wind That Shakes The Barley Waking Ned Devine This is the Sea Omagh Odd Man Out

RECENT CELTIC CRUSH SHOWS

CelticCrush10-26-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 History of Ireland, Larry Kirwan Part 1 Sally McLennane The Pogues The Young Waxies Dargle Dubliners

And a Bang on the The Waterboys Ear You And I in the One Cathie Ryan Bed Lie Seanchai & The Irish Catholic Boy Unity Squad

Van Morrison/The Carrickfergus Chieftains Streets of London Ralph McTell Prodigal Town Wake The ead

Lovers of Light Afro-Celt Oliver's Army Elvis Costello Plunkster Bible Code Sundays

I Can See Clearly Hothouse Flowers Now Whistles The Wind Flogging Molly Catch The Wind Donovan

Rakish Paddy Baka Beyond Primogenio Ruben Blades Apples Delhi 2 Dublin

Waltzin' Matilda Liam Clancy Tom Traubert's Blues Tom Waits

Where's Me Jumper Sultans of Ping F.C. God Save The QueenThe Sex Pistols Teenage Kicks The Undertones

Ode to Billie Joe Sarah McQuaid Birches Bill Morrissey Ohio Diana Jones

Black Velvet Band Dropkick Murphys Sligo Maid The Dubliners Rock on Rockall The Wolfe Tones

Step It Out Mary Danny Doyle Daily Growing Altan John Barleycorn Traffic

Copper Title Brian Keane King of the Fairies Horslips Carolina Rua The Chieftains

Bollocksology Sir Reg P Joe's Reel The Tulla Ceili Band Catch Me If You Can Walking on Cars Weekend Irish Barleyjuice Spanish Point Donal Lunny/Corofin

CelticCrush10-19-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 Blood Wedding Black 47 Incident on 57th Bruce Springsteen Street

The Ash Plant Noel Hill Come Out Ye Black & The Wolfe Tones Tans Her Father Didn't LikeFinbar & Eddie Me Furey

Baby Please Don't Them Go Days of Pearly David McWilliams Spencer Tin Soldier Stiff Little Fingers

1913The Waterboys Echo Fidelis Cora Smyth Pleasures of the Phil Ochs Harbor

Fields of Athenry Dropkick Murphys The Young Waxies Dargle Dubliners Irish Rovers Blaggards

Wild Mountain ThymeThe Silencers Abhainn an tSlua Runrig Sing All Our Cares The Proclaimers Away

Matty Groves Fairport Convention Martin Roachford's Peatbog Faeries

My Father Judy Collins Never Any Good With Martin Simpson Money Father and Son Cat Stevens

Where's Me Jumper Sultans of Ping F.C. Messin' With The Kid Rory Gallagher John Spillane/Louis Buile Mo Chroi De Paor

23rd Street Bill Morrissey Sam Stone John Prine Nora Johnny McEvoy

Hay Wrap The Saw Doctors The Real Pour Decisions McKenzies Spanish Lady The Mahones

Working Man Rita McNeill In Belfast Tonight Tara O'Grady Viva La Quinta Carlos Nunez Brigada

The Sick Bed of The Pogues Cuchulann Molly Molly A Band of Rogues When Irish Eyes Are The Ike Reilly Burning Assasination

The Storm Moving Hearts

CelticCrush10-12-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 Maria's Wedding Black 47 Wedding Reel Lunasa Van Morrison/The Marie's Wedding Chieftains

State of Dropkick Murphys Massachussets Elizabeth Street Dogs Drive Ric Ocasek

Turner & Kirwan of Traveling People Wexford Dirty Old Town The Pogues

John Spillane/Louis Bata is Bothar De Paor John Spillane/Louis Baisteach De Paor Si Do Mhamo Hothouse Flowers

Two Stones Walking on Cars And I Love Her So Pauline Scanlon

Dearg Doom Horslips I Buried Me Wife Dervish Rocky Road To The Tossers Dublin

Wako King Hako Peatbog Faeries Internal Exile Fish Loch Lomond Runrig

Manic Street Autumn Song Preachers House of a 1000 Willie Nile Guitars I Knew The Bride Dave Edmunds

Faithful Departed Philip Chevron Thousands Are The Pogues Sailing The Captains & The Philip Chevron Kings

Electric Landlady Kila Nothing Arrived Villagers Stride Set Bill Laswell

Lord Offaly David McWilliams Acadian Driftwood The Band Ohio Diana Jones

Tobacco Island Flogging Molly Oro Se Do Bheath Sinead O'Connor Bhaile

Everyday's Saint Neck Patrick's Day Courtin' in the Dessie O'Halloran Kitchen

Spanish Point Donal Lunny

CELTIC CRUSH 11-2-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 Morning Has Broken Cat Stevens Morning Star The Bothy Band Morning Dew Tim Rose

Glanfaidh Me Kila The Only One Gavin Friday Ocean and a Rock Lisa Hannigan

St. Dominic's PreviewVan Morrison Oro Oro Finbar Furey A Lady of a Certain Divine Comedy Age

Rebels of the Sacred Flogging Molly Heart I Buried Me Wife Dervish Paul Crean/The In Lieu Of You Changing Band

Only A Woman's Eleanor McEvoy Eleanor McEvoy Heart Working Man Rita McNeill Gulf of Mexico Steve Earle

Voodoo City Black 47 Yellow Moon Neville Brothers Dixie Bob Dylan

N17 The Saw Doctors Dead Flowers Dicey Riley Four Cups of Coffee Seamus Kelleher

Black Velvet Band Dropkick Murphys 22Celtic Cross American Ride Willie Nile

The Furey Green Fields of Brothers/Davy France Arthur Mick McCauley/Winifred Les Amantes Infidel Horan/Colm O'Caoimh The Dutchman Liam Clancy

Blue Collar Jane The Strypes Bolloxology Sir Reg Molly Molly A Band of Rogues

Gerry Divers Feel No Pain Speech Project Sing All Our Cares Damien Dempsey Away Life's Like That, Isn't ItBlack 47

Bullfrog Blues RoryGallagher The Night Paddy Great Big Sea Murphy Died Sleepy Maggie Ashley MacIsaacs

Clash of the Ash Runrig You're So Beautiful Pat McGuire Meet Me on McClean Shilelagh Law

The Storm Moving Hearts

CELTIC CRUSH 11-9-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 The Clancy Johnson's Motor Car Brothers/Tommy Makem Come Out Ye Black & The Wolfe Tones Tans Galway Races The Dubliners

Cathain Liam O'Maonlai Lasairfhiona Ni Bean Phaidin Chaonaolla Ceili Mor The Indulgers

White Birds The Waterboys Midnight in Avilles Lunasa Touched by Fire Black 47

Tessie Dropkick Murphys Elizabeth Street Dogs Friggin' in the Riggin' The Gobshites

Dunnes Store Girl John Spillane Worse Than Pride Kieran Goss Lady Came From Tim Hardin Baltimore

Martin Roachford's Peatbog Faeries An Bratach Ban Horslips The Radiators From Joe Strummer Space

Lucy Wainright Seek and Hide Roche Dead Skunk in the Loudon Wainright Middle of the Road Hammond Song The Roches

Manic Street Autumn Song Preachers Accidents Will Elvis Costello Happen Waterfloo Sunset The Kinks

Whistles The Wind Flogging Molly Broad Majestic The Pogues Shannon N 17 The Saw Doctors

Sunday Morning Lou Reed Pale Blue Eyes Velvet Underground I'm Waiting For The Velvet Underground Man

Jackie Wilson Said Van Morrison Noel Hill/Tony The Ash Plant McMahon When You're Falling Afro-Celt

Acoustic Motor Bike Luka Bloom Dezi Donnelly/Mike Paddy in the Smoke McGoldrick Wagon Wheel Celtic Spirit

Get Out of Denver Dave Edmunds American Land (live Bruce Springsteen in Dublin) Whiskey in the Jar Thin Lizzy

The Storm Moving Hearts

CELTIC CRUSH 11-2-13 Mo Bhron (Intro) Black 47 Chris - interview James Connolly Black 47

Bill - interview Summer in Dublin Bagatelle

Eileen - interview Funky Ceili Black 47

Diana - Interview In My Life The Beatles

Peter - Interview Five Points Black 47

Tom - Interview Livin' in America (from Fire of FreedomBlack 47 CD)

Bob - Interview Elvis Long Journey Home Costello/Chieftains

Lynn - Interview Andy Stewart/Phil Donegal Rain Cunningham

Tom (2 parts interview combined) Two Stones Walking On Cars

Erin - Interview Fitzcarraldo The Frames

Pete - Interview Izzy's Irish Rose Black 47

Caitlin - Interview Fire of Freedom Black 47

Steve - Interview Joe O'Donnell The Wolfe Tones

Ric - Interview Dirty Old Town The Pogues

Amy - Interview Catch Me If You Can Walking on Cars

John - Interview Galway Girl Steve Earle

Jennifer - Interview Great Ceili Swindle Peatbog Faeries

Diane - Interview Kilroy Was Here Larry Kirwan

Jim - Interview You're So Beautiful Pat McGuire

Martha - Interview John Spillane/Louis Beat of My Heart De Paor

Bob - Interview Streams of Whiskey The Pogues