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- 1846-12-31 — The Times, p.8
A correspondent writing from Berehaven, on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, describes the collapse of famine relief on the 10th of December 1846, when public w…
- 1881-12-10 — The Times, p.6
The Times's correspondent reports from Castletown Berehaven on the petty sessions of 9 December 1881. Hannah M. Reynolds (Dublin Ladies' Land League) was charge…
- 1881-12-24 — The Herald (Glasgow ed.), p.5A LADY LEAGUER SENT TO PRISON.
The Glasgow Herald's account of the same Castletown Berehaven petty sessions hearing of 23 December 1881 covered in the Leeds Mercury the same day. The substant…
- 1881-12-24 — The Leeds Mercury, p.3CHARGE AGAINST MISS REYNOLDS.
The Leeds Mercury's Cork correspondent reports on the post-adjournment hearing at Castletown Berehaven petty sessions of Friday 23 December 1881 — two weeks aft…
- 1882-01-13 — The Evening Mail, p.1IRELAND'S HEROINE.
The Stockton California Evening Mail's front-page account of the Reynolds case, with sub-headlines "PRETTY MISS REYNOLDS, THE LADY LAND LEAGUER" and "Her Influe…
- 1885-02-26 — Jamestown Weekly Alert, p.4
A one-sentence item: Bob Conchay writes back that he tried to get a button as a relic from a man named Murphy who had been hung by vigilantes under a railroad b…
- 1885-11-06 — Bismarck Weekly Tribune, p.1The Chinese Driven Out. / The Chinese Exodus.
Two wire items (columns 3 and 5 of the front page) reporting the violent expulsion of Chinese residents from Tacoma, Washington Territory, on 3 November 1885. T…
- 1889-11-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.4THE MINE ON FIRE. / Flames Break Out in the 500-Foot Level of the St. Lawrence. / FOUR MINERS MISSING. / Brave Men Lose Their Lives While Trying to Rescue Their Comrades. / SCENES AT THE ANACONDA. / Smoke From the Fire in the St. Lawrence Finds Its Way Into the Adjoining Mine With Terrible Results — The Flames Under Control.
Coverage of a fire at the St. Lawrence mine in Butte on 23 November 1889 in which smoke spread to the adjoining Anaconda mine and killed at least four miners. A…
- 1890-04-29 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5KILLED IN THE SHAFT. / Distressing Accident at the Montana Consolidated.
Patrick Murphy was killed on 28 April 1890 at the Montana Consolidated mine in Butte when a cage of timbers shifted and crushed him during descent. Four other m…
- 1890-07-23 — The Anaconda Standard, p.6FOUND IN THE SUMP. / The Bodies of Murphy and Kelleher Recovered at Last.
Eight months after the November 1889 St. Lawrence / Anaconda mine fire, the bodies of Patrick C. Murphy and Tim Kelleher were recovered from the sump of the Ana…
- 1890-11-12 — Kerry Sentinel, p.3THE IMPENDING DISTRESS. CASTLETOWNBERE.
Report of a public representative meeting at the **Castletownbere Union** boardroom, held after routine board business on a Thursday in November 1890, to hear t…
- 1892-09-14 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5
Court note from the Anaconda Standard reporting the divorce of Dennis J. Murphy from his wife Ellen. Murphy testified he was 31 years old, married Ellen in Cork…
- 1896-06-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.5[3-MONTH-OLD DAUGHTER OF MR AND MRS PATRICK MURPHY DIES]
Short death notice: the three-month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Murphy died on 23 June 1896 and was buried at 2 o'clock the next afternoon from the fam…
- 1900-12-21 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.21FATAL ACCIDENTS IN THE BUTTE MINES.
Annual roll of fatal mining accidents in Butte during 1900 — 30 named victims, with date, mine, and cause for each. Three names are family-archive-relevant: **J…
- 1908-01-07 — The Butte Daily Post, p.6JOHN BARLEYCORN IS VERY BUSY MAN
Butte Daily Post (evening paper) account of the **7 January 1908 commission hearing in Judge Donlan's court**, published the same evening — the longest of the t…
- 1908-01-08 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9TWO MENTAL UNFORTUNATES
Anaconda Standard's next-day account of the 7 January 1908 hearing in Judge Donlan's court — the third of three papers (Butte Daily Post 7 Jan, Butte Miner 8 Ja…
- 1908-01-08 — The Butte Miner, p.12PAT MURPHY FOUND TO BE SICK AND NOT INSANE
Butte Miner next-day account of the FIRST insanity hearing for Pat Murphy — the one the 24 March Anaconda Standard later refers to as "examined on a charge of i…
- 1908-03-23 — The Daily Inter Mountain, p.10PATRICK J. MURPHY IS FOUND INSANE
Single short news item. Patrick J. Murphy, aged 52, a native of County Cork, Ireland, residing at 120 West Quartz street, was found insane by Drs. Horst and Tur…
- 1908-03-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.9IS SENT TO THE ASYLUM
Anaconda Standard's follow-up to the Inter Mountain Mar 23 piece. Patrick J. Murphy, formerly a well-known bartender in Butte, for several years an almost helpl…
- 1908-03-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6PATRICK J. MURPHY IS SENT TO STATE ASYLUM
Butte Miner's coverage of the Mar 23 commitment — third paper to carry the story (with the Inter Mountain same-day and the Anaconda Standard same-day-next-day).…
- 1912-04-24 — The Butte Miner, p.6PATRICK MURPHY DEAD.
Death notice. Patrick Murphy, a native of Ireland, 53 years of age, died last night (Tuesday 23 April 1912) at the family residence, 3 West Agate street, Butte.…
- 1915-03-16 — The Butte Miner, p.3IRISH VOLUNTEERS TO PARADE IN THEIR CIVILIAN ATTIRE
"(Continued From Page One.)" St. Patrick's Day 1915 controversy: Mayor Smith of Butte instructed Chief of Police Jerry J. Murphy to ban the carrying of firearms…
- 1916-04-29 — The Butte Miner, p.5ATTENTION! Irish-Americans
Display-ad / signed-call for a mass meeting at Hibernia Hall Butte on Sunday April 30 1916 at 2 p.m. to form a Butte branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom (FOI…
- 1917-03-02 — The Butte Miner, p.8MRS. JOHANNA MURPHY IS VICTIM OF AN OPERATION
Obituary for Mrs. Johanna Murphy, wife of the late Dennis J. Murphy (whose 1916-10-19 Butte Miner obit is also in this archive). Born in Michigan 43 years ago (…
- 1917-06-10 — The San Francisco Examiner, p.1HOPE GIVEN UP FOR 193 MEN IN BURNING MINE
Front-page wire coverage in the San Francisco Examiner of the **Granite Mountain / Speculator mine disaster** in Butte — the worst hardrock-mining disaster in U…
- 1918-12-10 — The Anaconda Standard, p.7ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX
Most consequential single clipping in this Stage 6 ingest for the Beara / Butte family arc. James M. McCarthy of the Centennial Brewing company in Butte receive…
- 1918-12-10 — The Butte Miner, p.5M'CARTHY'S NEPHEW IS DROWNED NEAR IRELAND
Companion to the Anaconda Standard's "ONLY ONE SURVIVES IN PARTY OF SIX" on the same day — same drowning, different paper, more compact report. James J. McCarth…
- 1918-12-14 — The Butte Independent, p.1Irish Fishing Village Is Shrouded in Gloom of Sad Drowning Fatality.
The Butte Irish weekly's report of the drowning at Eyeries in November 1918, printed four days after the Butte dailies. It introduces a letter to James J. McCar…
- 1920-01-24 — The Anaconda Standard, p.7IRISH ORGANIZE FOR BOND DRIVE — Hundred Thousand to Be Sold in Montana of Ten Millions Offered
Major Irish-republican-bond-drive organising meeting held the previous evening (Fri Jan 23 1920) in Judge Lynch's courtroom Butte. Part of a $10-million nationa…
- 1920-01-25 — The Anaconda Standard, p.30Garfield School
School-news column titled "Garfield School" with the by-line **"By Jim Murphy"** — an 8th-grade student at Garfield School in (presumably) Butte or Anaconda is …
- 1920-03-18 — The Anaconda Standard, p.1GREATEST OF ALL ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATIONS AIDS CAUSE OF INDEPENDENCE FOR IRELAND
Banner front-page coverage with large photograph captioned "Great Throng at Courthouse Approving Resolutions on Independence of Ireland." Sub-deck: "Gigantic Pa…
- 1920-10-26 — The Butte Miner, p.1MURPHY FOLLOWS LORD MAYOR TO GRAVE / IRELAND AND ENGLAND ARE STIRRED FOLLOWING DEATH OF IRISH LEADER; MURPHY THIRD OF STRIKERS DEAD
Banner front-page wire dispatch on the deaths of two Cork hunger strikers on 25 October 1920: Terence MacSwiney (Lord Mayor of Cork, died early in Brixton priso…
- 1922-03-12 — The Anaconda Standard, p.26OLD-TIME CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO BE STAGED IN BUTTE / IRISH OF ANACONDA TO JOIN WITH BUTTE
Major page-wide (seven-column) Sunday feature, one week before St. Patrick's Day 1922 — the first observance after the establishment of the Irish Free State (Ja…
- 1930-06-18 — The Los Angeles Times, p.22Romping Child Drops Dead of Heart Disease
Frances Murphy, 6 years of age, **daughter of J. J. Murphy, manager of the boys' department in J. W. Robinson & Co. department store**, was happily romping on t…
- 1936-09-09 — The Montana Standard, p.1JAMES MURPHY, MINER, BEATEN TO DEATH
Front-page report. James Murphy, "47. a miner" (so printed), died on the evening of Tuesday 8 September 1936 at St. James' hospital, "the victim of what police …
- 1938-12-19 — The Montana Standard, p.3JAMES MURPHY DIES ON COAST
Sub-head: "Former Manager of Boys' Department at Hennessy's Illness Victim." **James Murphy, about 55, former Butte business man**, died at his home in Los Ange…
- 1999 — 'Stories as told by Riobard O'Dwyer', on the IRL-KERRY pages at RootsWeb; first sent by him to the IRL-KERRY mailing listRiobard O Dwyer, 'The Dream': his uncle Robert and the four men drowned with him off Pointe Ranna, 12 Nov 1918
Riobard O Dwyer's own telling of the seine-boat drowning of 12 November 1918 and of what his family believed followed from it. In my own words; his text is his …
- 2006-10-07 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó DwyerRiobárd Ó Dwyer's Famine oral history — 'Norry Tenpenny' of Allihies and the death-march to Bunmahon (Black '47)
A Beara Famine oral history relayed by Riobárd Ó Dwyer. In my own words (verbatim text held privately in notes.md per the NEHGS CC BY-NC-ND restriction): "Norr…