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The Harp Without the Crown – John J. O’Kelly

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…

The Harp Without the Crown – Liam Mellows

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…

The Harp Without the Crown – Linda Kearns

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,…

The Harp Without the Crown – James Connolly

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…

The Harp Without the Crown – James Larkin

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…

The Harp Without the Crown – Douglas Hyde

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…