In 2011 - I contacted the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives in Butte, Montana and ordered a copy of the video (DVD) from them... From Beara to Butte with Riobard in Butte c. 1995. Here's a link to the Archives: https://buttearchives.org/Collections.aspx Also... Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives 17 West Quartz Street; Butte, Montana 59701 Phone Number: 406.782.3280 | Email: bsbarchives@bsb.mt.gov Hours: 9-5, Mon-Fri This film is truly a treasure! Susan On Oct 9, 2015, at 10:43 AM, B Meyer via wrote: > 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. 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