LISTEN HERE “St. Patrick’s Day isn’t what it used to be …the outbursts of eloquence and appeals to Irish patriotism become fewer each year.” Quotation from the Daily Missoulian editorial March 17, 1923. Although that might have been the case…
LISTEN HERE The Irish World, was a widely read newspaper published and edited in New York by Irish American Patrick Ford. The newspaper reported about social and political events in Ireland for people living outside of that country, and noted…
LISTEN HERE “I’ve been told that Butte is the most cordial city in the Northwest, but I believe that is a paltry description….I should say that it extends as warm a welcome to a stranger within its gates as any…
LISTEN HERE “I think it is the most wonderful country one could ever see.” Quotation from Linda Kearns, Irish social activist, politician, and Irish Rebublican Army Nurse during the 1916 Dublin Easter Rising, upon her arrival in Butte February 17,…
LISTEN HERE “One might well fancy that he had left the world altogether in coming from Boston to Butte and to have dropped off into a wonderful new planet….I can only express my delight at what I find here in…
LISTEN HERE “Don’t sympathize with me over the loss of my sons…congratulate me… I am the proudest woman in Ireland… It is a grand thing to know that I have had the privilege of being the mother of two young…
LISTEN HERE “Socialists did not promise to free the working people, they only wanted to tell the people how to free themselves.” Quotation from James Connolly in his address made at the Butte Auditorium on April 7,1910. Hello, this is…
LISTEN HERE “The snakes that St Patrick had driven from Ireland have ended up in places like the United States where they evolved into policemen and prison guards,” Quotation from prisoner James Larkin at the exercise yard of Sing Sing…
LISTEN HERE “I left Ireland to come to another country and I discovered in Butte I am in another Ireland”…”I feel as much at home here as I would in my native home”…. “I’ve heard of Butte the day I…
LISTEN HERE “I may say that the people of Ireland look to the people of the United States as their best friends. Personally I feel at home here. I almost think it is my country. At least I do not…