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5. Christy Moore

This guy is one of Ireland’s most popular singers. A kind of Irish version of Woody Guthrie, all Moore needs to put on a great show is a microphone and an acoustic guitar. He is well-known for social commentary in his songs – he once sang a song in protest at a Ronald Reagan visit to Ireland in 1983, with the lines, "Hey Ronnie Reagan, I'm black and I'm pagan, I'm gay and I'm left and I'm free. I'm a non-fundamentalist environmentalist, Please don't bother me." But there is always plenty of humor in his shows as well – he doesn’t take himself too seriously, even if many of his songs deal with serious topics.

Here's Christy with "Ordinary Man."

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