Broadcasting from the top of the Carpenter's Union Hall in Butte, Montana. gm@butteamericaradio.org
Indivisible Butte Rally Join us in Butte, MT at Noon, April 19th at Emma Park (Colorado and Silver Street) for Indivisble Butte’s “STOP THE CUTS” rally. Bring chairs, signs and listen to speakers, with time for testimonials from the public regarding how…
“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…
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,…