Irish republican movement

Sources

• undated — Riobárd Ó Dwyer, "Who Were My Ancestors? Annals of Beara," Volume IIAnnals of Beara Vol II, p.412: JOHNNY O'DWYER & ELLEN LYNCH (CAOLRUA) — 14 children incl. Robert (1918 Pointe Ranna drowning victim, IRA Ballycrovane Co. captain) + the 1921 Black-and-Tans house-burning during the War of Independence

  Dwyer family genealogy page. The O'Dwyers of Caolrua are cousin-adjacent to our Murphy line — the 1918 Pointe Ranna fishing-boat drowning that killed Robert O'D…

• 1914-12-02 — The Anaconda Standard, p.7IRISH SOCIETIES REPLY TO LETTER OF MR. BRENNAN

  Joint letter to the editor of the Anaconda Standard, dated Butte Dec 1, 1914 — four months into World War I, when Butte's German-American and Irish-American com…

• 1915-03-18 — The Butte Miner, p.1SCENES INCIDENT TO BUTTE'S GREAT CELEBRATION OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY / Irish, German and Austrian Societies Unite in Tribute to St. Patrick's Memory

  Banner front-page coverage of Butte's 1915 St. Patrick's Day parade and observance — the previous day, Wednesday March 17. Two large parade photographs: top pho…

• 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…

• 1917-02-03 — The Gaelic American, p.7FINE CONTRIBUTION FROM BUTTE, MONTANA.

  Jeremiah J. Lynch sends John Devoy the financial statement of the Irish Relief Committee of Butte, which was formed about 26 May 1916 after the Easter Rising, a…

• 1919-03-14 — The Butte Miner, p.1MEN WHO HAVE CHARGE OF BUTTE'S ST. PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION

  Front-page photograph and announcement of the Butte committee arranging the 1919 St. Patrick's Day observance. Group photograph of six men (signed "Zubick") acr…

• 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…

• 1920-01-24 — The Labor Bulletin, p.4LOCAL IRISHMEN ORGANIZE FOR BOND DRIVE — Securities of Irish Republic Is to Be Sold During the Period From February 12 to March 17.

  Labor Bulletin's coverage of the same Jan 23 1920 organising meeting reported in the Anaconda Standard same day — see crossref. Same Silver Bow county committee…

• 1920-03-04 — The Butte Miner, p.8BOND CAMPAIGN FOR THE IRISH REPUBLIC / Captains in All Parts of City Aid Movement; Satisfactory Sales.

  Update on the Irish bond drive, six weeks into the campaign (drive opened Feb 12 1920, runs to St. Patrick's Day). This is the ANACONDA side of the drive — the …

• 1920-03-16 — The Butte Miner, p.12IRISH PROFESSOR TO TELL OF PRISON LIFE

  Page 12 continuation of the front-page article "IRISH PROFESSOR TO START ST. PATRICK'S DAY PROGRAM", here headed "IRISH PROFESSOR TO TELL OF PRISON LIFE (Contin…

• 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…

• 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 …