Those 6 people struck gold when they met you!! That is something I would dearly love to do! Terry Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2015, at 1:31 PM, Riobard O' Dwyer via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > 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