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Kathleen McLaughlin: Today’s guest is the host of a beloved Montana radio show on the literary arts. Lauren hosts “The Write Question,” a weekly literary program on Montana public radio that features writers and writing from all around the American West and beyond. A number of our Butte listeners will be familiar with the show.… Read more: Town Underground – Lauren Korn

Kathleen McLaughlin: Kevin Berry, welcome back to Butte. Your latest book is set here, and I’d love to hear the story of how you found this place to begin with. Kevin Barry: It’s a long and quite tormented story, really. And we have to go back to the far, distant reaches of my late 20s.… Read more: Town Underground – Kevin Barry

“Truth in the News” was the motto of the Irish Press, first printed inDublin on September 5,1931. The newspaper was available for Irishreaders until May 25,1995. During its sixty plus years of publication,the paper played a central role in reporting Irish politics and cultural life.The establishment of the Irish Press was the idea of Eamon… Read more: Harp Without the Crown – Irish Press Newspaper

“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, it will be aneverlasting disgrace and a blight upon our nationality.” Quote takenfrom Douglas Hyde,… Read more: Harp Without the Crown – Gaelic League

“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 important position of advance man and organizer for Irish Gaelic League founder and President Douglas… Read more: The Harp Without The Crown – Thomas Concannon

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 BroadwayTheater on December 10,1923. She was referring to the recently passedIrish Free State Treaty, which… Read more: The Harp Without The Crown – Kathleen Brady

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 James E. Murray, Montana Chairperson and State President ofthe Montana Branch of the American Association… Read more: The Harp Without The Crown – American Association for the Recognition of the Irish Republic

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 that Ireland ought (to) be a free and independent Republic and is willing to work… Read more: The Harp Without the Crown – Friends of Irish Freedom

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 at the Broadway Theater. Hello this is John Conlan and welcome to this episode of… Read more: The Harp Without the Crown – Lindsay Crawford

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 first paragraph of The Proclamation of The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic to… Read more: The Harp Without the Crown – The Easter Rising