Broadcasting from the top of the Carpenter's Union Hall in Butte, Montana. gm@butteamericaradio.org
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…
Humanities Montana celebrated it’s 50th year as an organization in 2022, a nonprofit affiliate of the National endowment for the Humanities, Humanities Montana works across the state to encourage, facilitate and fund Humanities centered projects at school, institutions and nonprofits…
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This Week in Labor History is written by Kevin D. Curtis and read by retired union carpenter Kevin R. Cook. You can hear it every Monday during KBMF’s 5 o’clock News Hour or find an archive HERE