This evening I was going through the Village of Eyeries, when I met 6 lovely people. I greeted them, as all good and friendly Beara people do to visitors, and it turned out that they were from Butte. Montana, and that they were looking for a fellow by the name of Riobard O'Dwyer, who, it was said, was supposed to know everything that a person should know about Beara ancestry. When they found out that the person they had heard about was standing there by their side, they were delighted that I could tell them where O'Shea's was. Unfortunately, it turned out that Mary had gone to Castletownbere, but, anyhow, I invited them down to my house, and made them feel at home. We talked about Fr. Sars & his sister Vernie , whose father, Sean "Irish" O'Sullivan had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard Island, just across from us outside Kilcatherine Point, Eyeries Parish. Of course, the "Yank" came into our conversation. And I told them about the night we were in John " the Yank's" apartment in Butte with Tom Mulcahy and the "Yank". John, who must have been around 90 at the time, was playing his single-row button accordeon, and I was playing my own accordeon to join in. "Saint Joan" my wife, was there as well. [Joan was aptly named as such by some American friends for having the patience to put up with me !! }. We conversed about the copper miners who came from Beara to Butte, and about the people we met in Butte (who have a special place in my heart still). To make the Butte visitors so welcome, as they deserved to be, I took out my faithful accordeon and played for them some Irish traditional music, as well as a tape I had made at home on the kitched sideboard, playing the organ and singing with it one of my favourite songs: "Oh Danny Boy". The delighted Butte visitors later met Mary after they had returned from the Allihies Copper Mine Museum. Later this evening., on Irish T.V., there was a programme on The Allihies Mines, and also on the famour Hag of Beara. Among the lectures on the programme were Tadhg O'Sullivan of the Allihies Museum, and Ann (nee Mac Nally of Garnish), the Principal teacher of Castletownbere Primary School. All in all, it was an eventful evening. Riobard.

Riobard you are the best!!! I too have had the pleasure of your company and your sweet accordion music on our visit to the Beara...one of my fondest memories and I will cherish them forever!!!! Thank you Again Riobard...just your message alone brought back those fond memories and I so enjoyed it!!!! Sandra M. Cummings (Harrington FLOR) -----Original Message----- From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Riobard O' Dwyer via Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:31 PM To: beara@rootsweb.com Subject: [BEARA] Irish T.V. Programme; plus visitors from Butte, Montana. This evening I was going through the Village of Eyeries, when I met 6 lovely people. I greeted them, as all good and friendly Beara people do to visitors, and it turned out that they were from Butte. Montana, and that they were looking for a fellow by the name of Riobard O'Dwyer, who, it was said, was supposed to know everything that a person should know about Beara ancestry. When they found out that the person they had heard about was standing there by their side, they were delighted that I could tell them where O'Shea's was. Unfortunately, it turned out that Mary had gone to Castletownbere, but, anyhow, I invited them down to my house, and made them feel at home. We talked about Fr. Sars & his sister Vernie , whose father, Sean "Irish" O'Sullivan had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard Island, just across from us outside Kilcatherine Point, Eyeries Parish. Of course, the "Yank" came into our conversation. And I told them about the night we were in John " the Yank's" apartment in Butte with Tom Mulcahy and the "Yank". John, who must have been around 90 at the time, was playing his single-row button accordeon, and I was playing my own accordeon to join in. "Saint Joan" my wife, was there as well. [Joan was aptly named as such by some American friends for having the patience to put up with me !! }. We conversed about the copper miners who came from Beara to Butte, and about the people we met in Butte (who have a special place in my heart still). To make the Butte visitors so welcome, as they deserved to be, I took out my faithful accordeon and played for them some Irish traditional music, as well as a tape I had made at home on the kitched sideboard, playing the organ and singing with it one of my favourite songs: "Oh Danny Boy". The delighted Butte visitors later met Mary after they had returned from the Allihies Copper Mine Museum. Later this evening., on Irish T.V., there was a programme on The Allihies Mines, and also on the famour Hag of Beara. Among the lectures on the programme were Tadhg O'Sullivan of the Allihies Museum, and Ann (nee Mac Nally of Garnish), the Principal teacher of Castletownbere Primary School. All in all, it was an eventful evening. Riobard. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

The other day I was telling you about my visit to Butte [the time I was out there to help in the making of the film "From Beara to Butte", and in which I did the commentary as well ----- which was based on my research into the emigration of the Miners from Beara in the Allihies Copper Mines to the Mines in Butte, Montana]. Among the people I mentioned who helped in the making of the Film was Fr. Sars(field) O'Sullivan. His father was the well-known there, Sean "Irish" O'Sullivan, who had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard, a little Island just off the Point of Kilcatherine, and across Coulagh Bay from Eyeries, here in Beara. Sean "Irish" was a native Gaelic/Irish speaker like everybody on the Island. Well. anyhow, Sean was a particulary good friend of the then President of Ireland, Eamonn De Valera, who at one time visited Butte, and after whom Sean called one his sons, Eamonn, who was later Fr. Eamonn O'Sullivan. Knowing of the hatred that a fairly old farmer here, Patsy Kelly, had for De Valera, another local farmer, for "devilment", let on to be praising Dev. "Do you know that De Valera was a very holy man", says he, "and that De Valera used receive Holy Communion every morning". With hatred of Dev in his eyes, and fire on his tongue, Patsy Kelly "blasted out": "Huh" says he ----- and the fellow who gave the Communion to him was worse" !! Riobard. On 8 October 2015 at 23:17, Sandra Cummings <sandracummings@metrocast.net> wrote: > Riobard you are the best!!! I too have had the pleasure of your company and > your sweet accordion music on our visit to the Beara...one of my fondest > memories and I will cherish them forever!!!! > > Thank you Again Riobard...just your message alone brought back those fond > memories and I so enjoyed it!!!! > > > Sandra M. Cummings (Harrington FLOR) > > -----Original Message----- > From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Riobard O' Dwyer via > Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:31 PM > To: beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BEARA] Irish T.V. Programme; plus visitors from Butte, Montana. > > This evening I was going through the Village of Eyeries, when I met 6 lovely > people. I greeted them, as all good and friendly Beara people do to > visitors, and it turned out that they were from Butte. Montana, and that > they were looking for a fellow by the name of Riobard O'Dwyer, who, it was > said, was supposed to know everything that a person should know about Beara > ancestry. When they found out that the person they had heard about was > standing there by their side, they were delighted that I could tell them > where O'Shea's was. > Unfortunately, it turned out that Mary had gone to Castletownbere, but, > anyhow, I invited them down to my house, and made them feel at home. We > talked about Fr. Sars & his sister Vernie , whose father, Sean "Irish" > O'Sullivan had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard Island, just across from > us outside Kilcatherine Point, Eyeries Parish. Of course, the "Yank" came > into our conversation. And I told them about the night we were in John " > the Yank's" apartment in Butte with Tom Mulcahy and the "Yank". John, who > must have been around 90 at the time, was playing his single-row button > accordeon, and I was playing my own accordeon to join in. "Saint Joan" my > wife, was there as well. [Joan was aptly named as such by some American > friends for having the patience to put up with me !! }. We conversed about > the copper miners who came from Beara to Butte, and about the people we met > in Butte (who have a special place in my heart still). To make the Butte > visitors so welcome, as they deserved to be, I took out my faithful > accordeon and played for them some Irish traditional music, as well as a > tape I had made at home on the kitched sideboard, playing the organ and > singing with it one of my favourite > songs: "Oh Danny Boy". The delighted Butte visitors later met Mary after > they had returned from the Allihies Copper Mine Museum. Later this evening., > on Irish T.V., there was a programme on The Allihies Mines, and also on the > famour Hag of Beara. Among the lectures on the programme were Tadhg > O'Sullivan of the Allihies Museum, and Ann (nee Mac Nally of Garnish), the > Principal teacher of Castletownbere Primary School. All in all, it was an > eventful evening. Riobard. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)

Anyone know where one can find a copy of the film "From Beara to Butte"? Interestingly it doesn't come up on a web search... Thank you! ~ Barbara Meyer/Bill Gilmore Meyer USA -----Original Message----- From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Riobard O' Dwyer via Sent: Friday, October 09, 2015 4:37 AM To: beara@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BEARA] Irish T.V. Programme; plus visitors from Butte, Montana. The other day I was telling you about my visit to Butte [the time I was out there to help in the making of the film "From Beara to Butte", and in which I did the commentary as well ----- which was based on my research into the emigration of the Miners from Beara in the Allihies Copper Mines to the Mines in Butte, Montana]. Among the people I mentioned who helped in the making of the Film was Fr. Sars(field) O'Sullivan. His father was the well-known there, Sean "Irish" O'Sullivan, who had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard, a little Island just off the Point of Kilcatherine, and across Coulagh Bay from Eyeries, here in Beara. Sean "Irish" was a native Gaelic/Irish speaker like everybody on the Island. Well. anyhow, Sean was a particulary good friend of the then President of Ireland, Eamonn De Valera, who at one time visited Butte, and after whom Sean called one his sons, Eamonn, who was later Fr. Eamonn O'Sullivan. Knowing of the hatred that a fairly old farmer here, Patsy Kelly, had for De Valera, another local farmer, for "devilment", let on to be praising Dev. "Do you know that De Valera was a very holy man", says he, "and that De Valera used receive Holy Communion every morning". With hatred of Dev in his eyes, and fire on his tongue, Patsy Kelly "blasted out": "Huh" says he ----- and the fellow who gave the Communion to him was worse" !! Riobard. On 8 October 2015 at 23:17, Sandra Cummings <sandracummings@metrocast.net> wrote: > Riobard you are the best!!! I too have had the pleasure of your > company and your sweet accordion music on our visit to the > Beara...one of my fondest memories and I will cherish them forever!!!! > > Thank you Again Riobard...just your message alone brought back those > fond memories and I so enjoyed it!!!! > > > Sandra M. Cummings (Harrington FLOR) > > -----Original Message----- > From: beara-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:beara-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Riobard O' Dwyer via > Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 4:31 PM > To: beara@rootsweb.com > Subject: [BEARA] Irish T.V. Programme; plus visitors from Butte, Montana. > > This evening I was going through the Village of Eyeries, when I met 6 > lovely people. I greeted them, as all good and friendly Beara people > do to visitors, and it turned out that they were from Butte. Montana, > and that they were looking for a fellow by the name of Riobard > O'Dwyer, who, it was said, was supposed to know everything that a > person should know about Beara ancestry. When they found out that the > person they had heard about was standing there by their side, they > were delighted that I could tell them where O'Shea's was. > Unfortunately, it turned out that Mary had gone to Castletownbere, > but, anyhow, I invited them down to my house, and made them feel at > home. We talked about Fr. Sars & his sister Vernie , whose father, Sean "Irish" > O'Sullivan had emigrated to Butte from Inisfernard Island, just across > from us outside Kilcatherine Point, Eyeries Parish. Of course, the > "Yank" came into our conversation. And I told them about the night we were in John " > the Yank's" apartment in Butte with Tom Mulcahy and the "Yank". John, > who must have been around 90 at the time, was playing his single-row > button accordeon, and I was playing my own accordeon to join in. > "Saint Joan" my wife, was there as well. [Joan was aptly named as such > by some American friends for having the patience to put up with me !! > }. We conversed about the copper miners who came from Beara to Butte, > and about the people we met in Butte (who have a special place in my > heart still). To make the Butte visitors so welcome, as they deserved > to be, I took out my faithful accordeon and played for them some Irish > traditional music, as well as a tape I had made at home on the kitched > sideboard, playing the organ and singing with it one of my favourite > songs: "Oh Danny Boy". The delighted Butte visitors later met Mary > after they had returned from the Allihies Copper Mine Museum. Later > this evening., on Irish T.V., there was a programme on The Allihies > Mines, and also on the famour Hag of Beara. Among the lectures on the > programme were Tadhg O'Sullivan of the Allihies Museum, and Ann (nee > Mac Nally of Garnish), the Principal teacher of Castletownbere Primary > School. All in all, it was an eventful evening. Riobard. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- Riobard (O'Dwyer) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message