WELCOME SOCIAL OF THE GAELIC LEAGUE

The Butte Daily Post, Butte, 1912-01-06, p.3

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Summary

Sub-head: "First Meeting of the Year a Notable One — An Interesting Program." First Butte Gaelic League meeting of 1912, held Friday evening Jan 5 1912 as a welcome social to members and friends. Largest enrollment in the history of the Butte branch. **First vice president Miss Annie Sullivan** spoke of the spirit which should fill members and noted the early struggles and degrees of progress. **John J. Walsh** (recent arrival from Chicago, in Butte three months studying for the bar) joined that evening. **Programme participants:** - Introduction — John C. Murphy - Step dancing — Misses Mary McCarthy and Nellie Burke, accompanied by Peter McBrian - Song in Gaelic — children of the Gaelic League - Duet — Misses Mary and Josie McCarthy, accompanied by Miss Julia Burke - Violin duet — Masters Frank Connell and James Downey - Four-hand reel — Patrick O'Brien, Daniel Leahy, Abbie Leahy, Mary Healy; accompanist Peter McBrian - Duet — Misses Margie Sullivan and Helen Downey, accompanied by Miss Margie Downey - Step dancing — Miss Abbie Lowney, Daniel Leahy - **Four-hand jig — Patrick O'Brien, Daniel Leahy, Misses Norah Sullivan and Katie Holland** Regular classes of the year to resume next Friday evening (Jan 12 1912), 8:30 sharp. ARCHIVE SIGNIFICANCE. (a) First Butte Gaelic League meeting of the year naming the league's vice president (Miss Annie Sullivan) and several long-recurring Butte Irish-cultural participants (Norah Sullivan, Katie Holland, the McCarthy sisters, the Burke sisters, Daniel Leahy, Patrick O'Brien). Six months before the United Irish Societies' Gregson Springs picnic (1912-07-21) and seven months before the 1911-08-28 Gaelic League picnic that featured the same circle. (b) John C. Murphy gives the introduction — same John C. Murphy on the 1920 Washoe Park picnic committee and the 1912 Gregson Springs picnic committee. Continuity of role.

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Narrative

The Butte Gaelic league opened its year with a welcome social for members and friends, drawing a large attendance and the largest enrollment in the league's history. First vice president Miss Annie Sullivan spoke on the spirit of the league, its early struggles and its progress, and John J. Walsh, three months in Butte from Chicago and studying for the bar, joined that evening. The program ran to step dancing by Misses Mary McCarthy and Nellie Burke, a Gaelic song by the league's children, violin duets by Masters Frank Connell and James Downey, and four-hand reels and jigs featuring Patrick O'Brien, Daniel Leahy, Misses Norah Sullivan and Katie Holland; regular classes resume the following Friday at 8:30.

“Classes commence sharp at 8:30, and those not present at the opening of class will be marked absent.”
“the enrollment before the opening of the entertainment was the largest in the history of the league”

AI-generated (claude-opus-5). Verify against the transcription before quoting.

People

Dan Leahy (Daniel Leahy), Butte Gaelic League dancer and AOH Division 1 member(as printed: Daniel Leahy)
role: four hand reel and jig dancer and step dancer · family confidence: 0 not family
John C. Murphy (Butte Gaelic League president; AOH Division 1 recording secretary, 1913)(as printed: John C. Murphy)
role: introduction · family confidence: 0 not family
Nora Sullivan (Ellen Murphy's niece, b. ~1888 Ireland; later m. John Hanley)(as printed: Miss Norah Sullivan)
role: four hand jig dancer · family confidence: 95 certain

Also mentioned

Miss Annie Sullivan · first_vice_president_gaelic_league_speaker
John J. Walsh · new_gaelic_league_member
Recent Chicago arrival; in Butte three months; studying for the bar.
Miss Mary McCarthy · step_dancer
Miss Nellie Burke · step_dancer
Peter McBrian · accompanist
Miss Josie McCarthy · duet_singer
Miss Julia Burke · duet_accompanist
Master Frank Connell · violin_duet
Master James Downey · violin_duet
Patrick O'Brien · four_hand_reel_and_jig_dancer
Abbie Leahy · four_hand_reel_dancer
Mary Healy · four_hand_reel_dancer
Miss Margie Sullivan · duet_singer
Miss Helen Downey · duet_singer
Miss Margie Downey · duet_accompanist
Miss Abbie Lowney · step_dancer
Miss Katie Holland · four_hand_jig_dancer
= the Katie Holland on the 1911 Gaelic League picnic committee.

Places

Butte, Montana (primary)

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Source type

news_item, society_column

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Transcription

transcription: complete · confidence high

# WELCOME SOCIAL OF THE GAELIC LEAGUEIrish societiesGaelic Leaguefounded 1893Founded in Dublin by Douglas Hyde and Eoin MacNeill to keep Irish a spoken language. Branches in American cities ran language classes, dances and concerts and raised money for the work in Ireland.More in Key terms → ## First Meeting of the Year a Notable One — An Interesting Program. *The Butte Daily Post, Saturday, January 6, 1912, p. 3.* The Butte Gaelic league held its first meeting of the year last evening in the form of a welcome social to members and their friends. There was a large attendance and the enrollment before the opening of the entertainment was the largest in the history of the league. The first vice president, Miss Annie Sullivan, attended and spoke of the spirit which should fill the members of the league. She told of the early struggles and noted the degrees of progress. John J. Walsh, a recent arrival in Butte from Chicago, is one of those who joined the league last evening. He has been in Butte for the past three months and is studying for the bar. Among those who took part in the entertainment last evening were the following: Introduction, John C. Murphy; step dancing, Misses Mary McCarthy and Nellie Burke, accompanied by Peter McBrian; song in Gaelic by the children of the Gaelic league; duet, Misses Mary and Josie McCarthy, accompanied by Miss Julia Burke; violin duet, Masters Frank Connell and James Downey; four-hand reel, Patrick O'Brien, Daniel Leahy and Abbie Leahy and Mary Healy, accompanist, Peter McBrian; duet, Misses Margie Sullivan and Helen Downey, accompanied by Miss Margie Downey; step dancing, Miss Abbie Lowney and Daniel Leahy; four-hand jig, Patrick O'Brien, Daniel Leahy, Misses Norah Sullivan and Katie Holland. The regular classes of the year will be resumed next Friday evening. Classes commence sharp at 8:30, and those not present at the opening of class will be marked absent.

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Open questions

Sullivan / Holland / McCarthy / Burke recurring female names across the Butte Gaelic-League / Erin's-Daughters archive — worth a back-pass aggregation to identify which are the same individuals across clippings. The Erin's Daughters PDFs in the inbox feature "Norah Sullivan" prominently and may consolidate identifications.