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ON THE RECORD: New Irish music releases you need to hear
IS THERE a more treasured Irish songwriter than Christy Moore? That’s a rhetorical question, of course, because in the past 50 years to so, between the jigs of Planxty, the reels of the Bothy Band, the numerous solo albums and countless gigs, Moore has …