In 1978, the Irish Government proposed the construction of Ireland's first nuclear power plant in Carne, near Carnsore Point. At the same time there were plans to mine uranium in the Donegal region. There was much protest at the time, and a number of anti-nuclear festivals were held in Wexford. Many musicians and their associates were important in building an anti-nuclear movement.
On this anti-nuclear 12”, released in 1979, an Alternative Energy Record, Christy and his younger brother Barry Moore are the main contributors. On the back of the sleeve notes on ‘some nuclear issues’: about costs, waste, alternative energy (“there is extreme bureaucratic indifference towards the obvious urgency to research and develop alternative sources of energy”) and the moral issue. Part of the proceeds of this record went toward the prevention of nuclear development in Ireland. Which turned out to be succesfull. Carne was never built.
Christy Moore was a regular guest at those Carnsore anti-nuclear festivals, where he also sang "The House Down in Carne" or "The Ballad of Nuke Power". The song was later released on the compilation album Christy Moore - The Early Years 1969-81.

The Sussed were teenage Dublin punkers – the average age of the band was a mere 16 when they all took a day off school and recorded this single. “Don’t Swim On The East Coast” highlightens many people's concerns at the time in Ireland about Windscale's dumping of radioactive waste and underscores the fact that radioactivity does not respect national borders: “Don’t swim on the East Coast / There’s been a spillage at Windscale / Slight mishap - a “human error” / But don’t worry, worry / They say it’s not coming our way today.” The single sold very well locally but was not included in the RTE (Irish Radio) charts because of it’s political nature. The Sussed was offered a slot on the popular late night chat show The Late Late Show. However this appearance was cancelled at the eleventh hour when someone at the station uncovered the controversial lyrics.
The single was re-released excactly 36 years later, in 2017, in a limited pressing (300 copies) on pink vinyl.

Barry Moore is an Irish folk singer-songwriter. He is the younger brother of folk singer Christy Moore. In 1987 began performing using the stage name of "Luka Bloom". He chose the name "Luka" from the title of Suzanne Vega's song about child abuse and "Bloom" from the main character in James Joyce's novel Ulysses. Barry and Christy Moore were the main contributors on the 1979 Anti-Nuclear 12” and played at the four large anti-nuclear rallies at Carnsore Point.
This single, recorded in May 1983, was financed by Help Organise Peaceful Energy (HOPE) and the proceeds helped fund the campaign against the dumping of nuclear waste in the sea. Untill the early 1980’s, West-European countries, amongst them the U.K. dumped low- and medium level solid radioactive waste in the Ocean. Popular resistance and international treaties ended this type of dumping. But the reprocessing plant at Sellafield (formerly known as Windscale) continued to emit effluent radioactive waste into the Irish Sea. Especially in Ireland, but also in many other countries such as Norway, the political and societal opposition against those discharges were massive.

Christopher Andrew "Christy" Moore (1945) is an Irish folk singer, songwriter and guitarist. Moore is best known for his political and social commentary which reflects a left-wing, Irish republican perspective. He supported the anti-nuclear movement in Ireland playing in many concerts and at festivals in Carnsore Point for the cause. On this compilation The Early Years 1969-1981, released in 2020, a number of songs Christy Moore sang in the years he was heavily involved in the Irish anti-nuclear movement.
Two songs, released on this compilation, were recorded live at The Abbey Tavern in early March 1980 by the Irish broadcasting station RTE. The Sun is Burning had previously been released on Moore’s 1978 album The Iron behind the Velvet and the Anti-Nuclear 12” in 1979. The House down at Carne (The Ballad of Nuke Power) has not been released under his name, but was one of the songs credited to The Early Grave Band on the 12” under the title Nuke Power. In 1979, during the hay days of the Irish anti-nuclear movement, Moore appeared at The Late Late Show where he performed the anti-nuclear song The workers are being used again: They want four nuclear stations / and who knows how many more? / If we are to stop them / we must defend Carnsore.
In 2007, Moore was named as Ireland's greatest living musician in RTÉ's People of the Year Awards.