Upcoming Events from KBMF and Friends
The Silver Dollar Saloon Now open daily 6pm Open Mic Night Wednesdays The Clark Chateau Events: The Covellite Theater: The Motherlode Theater: Orphan Girl Theater:
Harp Without the Crown – Gaelic League
“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 Harp Without The Crown – Thomas Concannon
“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…
The Harp Without The Crown – Kathleen Brady
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…
The Harp Without The Crown – American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic
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…
The Harp Without the Crown – Friends of Irish Freedom
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…
The Harp Without the Crown – Lindsay Crawford
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…
The Harp Without the Crown – The Easter Rising
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…
The Harp Without the Crown – The Heart of Paddy Whack
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…
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…