Hi. Barbara, It's not easy to find. Search the RTE website for it. I bought a copy from them several years ago. Paid a pretty penny too. Bill Gawne On Oct 9, 2015 12:45 PM, "B Meyer via" <beara@rootsweb.com> 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. 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >