BUTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEF

# [B]UTTE GAVE $2,540 FOR IRISH RELIEFIrish societiesIrish Relief funds1916–1921Money raised in America for distress in Ireland — after the 1916 Rising for the families of the dead and imprisoned, and again during the War of Independence.More in Key terms → ## [F]inancial Report of Local Committee Made at Meeting Last Evening. *The Butte Daily Post, Saturday, January 20, 1917, p. 7, column 1 (top-left lead).* --- [The scan clips the left edge of column 1; letters in square brackets are supplied where the first one or two characters of a line are lost.] Since the Easter Sunday uprising in [th]e city of Dublin, Ireland, patriotic [s]ons of Erin in Butte and sympathetic [A]mericans have forwarded to Thomas [H]ughes Kelly, national treasurer of the [Ir]ish Relief fund in New York, the sum [of] $2,540 for the relief of the depend[e]nts of the Irishmen who died in the [i]nsurrection or were imprisoned after[w]ards. This contribution from Butte [c]ompares very favorably with the do[n]ations from the other cities of the [U]nited States. Mr. Kelly to whom the [m]oney was sent is the son of the well-[k]nown New York banker, Eugene [K]elly. When Mr. Kelly and Joseph [S]mith attempted to land in Ireland last [s]ummer for the purpose of looking aft[e]r the distribution of the funds there, [t]hey were stopped at Liverpool and [d]enied admission to Ireland. The list of contributions in Butte [w]as headed by the local branch of the [F]riends of Irish Freedom, which do[n]ated $500. A like sum was collected [a]t the Butte Catholic churches. The [b]alance of the money was donated by [t]he divisions of the HiberniansIrish societiesAncient Order of Hiberniansin America from 1836The largest Irish Catholic fraternal order in America: sick and death benefits for members, St. Patrick’s Day parades, and steady support for Irish nationalism.More in Key terms →, the Robert Emmet Literary associationIrish societiesRobert Emmet Literary AssociationButte’s camp of the Clan na Gael — the secret Irish republican brotherhood in America — meeting publicly as a literary society. Its minute books record members by number rather than by name.More in Key terms →, [t]he Shamrock and Wolfe Tone foot[b]all clubs and individual subscribers. Following is the financial report to [d]ate as made at the meeting of the committee last evening at John J. Crowley's store: ### Financial Statement. The Irish Relief committee of Butte, Montana, hereby submits the follow[i]ng statement of receipts and disbursements from its formation, on or about May 26, 1916, to date: Receipts — Collected at Catholic churches on June 4, 1916, and in City Auditorium on June 11, 1916, and from various persons subsequent to June 11, 1916, $2,261.35; disbursements, $[4]2.50; net receipts, $2,218.85. June 20, remitted by draft to Thomas Hughes Kelly, national treasurer, $2,000; paid Daly Bank and Trust company, exchange, (cost of draft) $2.50; balance on hand, $216.35. Concert account—Receipts: Received at box office of City Auditorium on Nov. 26, 1916, $142.50; sale of tickets on outside, $218; total receipts $360.50. Disbursements, $38.75; net receipts, $321.75; balance as shown above, $216.35; donation, $2.50; total $540.60. Jan. 16, remitted by draft to Thomas Hughes Kelly, national treasurer, $540; paid Daly Bank and Trust company, exchange, (cost of draft) 60 cents; total, $540.60. The committe [sic] thanks most sincerely all those who contributed to the success of its efforts by donation or otherwise. Dated at Butte, Mont., this 19th day of January, 1917. WALTER J. SEWELL, Treasurer. REV. M. J. HANNAN. T. J. McCARTHY. JOHN CONNOLLY. MIKE CONWAY. JAMES J. MURPHY. JOHN J. CROWLEY. JOHN GRIBBEN. MAURICE McDONOUGH. PATRICK T. SHEA. JOHN C. MURPHY. JEREMIAH J. LYNCH, Chairman. *[Text checked against the page scan at 3x (the FOIFIrish societiesFriends of Irish Freedomfounded 1916Founded at the Irish Race Convention in New York in March 1916 to win American support for Irish independence; the main open republican organisation in the United States through the war years.More in Key terms → sum at 8x), 21 Oct 2026, starting from the tile-by-tile page reading of 20-21 Oct 2026, which re-cropped the clipped left edge at 8-12x.]*