Kathleen McLaughlin: Today’s guest is the host of a beloved Montana radio show on the literary arts. Lauren hosts “The Write Question,” a weekly literary program on Montana public radio that features writers and writing from all around the American…
Kathleen McLaughlin: Kevin Berry, welcome back to Butte. Your latest book is set here, and I’d love to hear the story of how you found this place to begin with. Kevin Barry: It’s a long and quite tormented story, really.…
“Truth in the News” was the motto of the Irish Press, first printed inDublin on September 5,1931. The newspaper was available for Irishreaders until May 25,1995. During its sixty plus years of publication,the paper played a central role in reporting…
“The Gaelic League is founded not on a hatred of England butupon love of Ireland…if we allow one of the finest and richestlanguages in Europe, which fifty years ago was spoken by nearlyfour million Irishmen, to die without a struggle,…
“The cause of Ireland is the cause of humanity…anything done for the Gaelic League is helping free Ireland from intellectual atrophy and industrial stagnation.” Quote from Thomas Concannon upon his arrival to Butte, Montana on April 2,1906. Concannon held the…
LISTEN HERE There was no Treaty between Ireland and England…a Treatyimplies equality between contracting parties…in the so-called Treaty of1921, one of the parties is made completely subservient to the other”.Quote from a speech given by Kathleen Brady at the Butte…
LISTEN HERE “The recognition of the Irish Republic is in line with the traditional policy of the United States ….and our government has already recognized the governments of fourteen South American republics…recognition is not a hostile act”. 1921 Quote from…
LISTEN HERE “Attention Irish Americans: A mass meeting will be held in Hibernia Hall on Sunday April 30 at 2 P.M. for purposes of forming a branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom, any man of Irish blood who believes…
LISTEN HERE ” We do not care if a majority of the people are Protestant or Catholic….they should be free to choose their own form of government.” Quotation from(Robert) Lindsay Crawford in an address to a sold out Butte audience…
LISTEN HERE “IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and the dead generations from which she receives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.” Quote taken from…