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…
LISTEN HERE “When I think of the kindness and courtesy shown to me by your citizens I shall carry home the recollections and your Irish brethren will listen to the account of my reception in Butte City.” Quotation by Michael…
LISTEN HERE Hello, this is John Conlan, host of The Rocky Road to Dublin here on KBMF and welcome to this episode of the Harp Without the Crown where I will be discussing the Butte visit of Irish social reformer…
LISTEN HERE Welcome to this edition of the Harp Without the Crown, where I will be taking a look at early Butte history and the Butte Irish community when Eamon de Valera visited Butte on July 26, 1919. De Valera is…