*From Beara To Butte* — the central documentary/EPUB on the very migration this archive narrates

Summary

Companion EPUB to the **"From Beara to Butte" documentary** — the central secondary source on the same Beara peninsula → Butte, Montana migration arc that this archive's book is about. Per Riobárd Ó Dwyer's 2012 email, the documentary featured Ó Dwyer travelling to Butte and being received by Butte's chief executive; the EPUB is the print companion. This is the single most thematically aligned reference work in the archive — read alongside it rather than around it. Key for the user's book: the documentary is, in effect, a pre-existing telling of the same arc from a different angle (the documentary tracks Beara emigrants and their descendants in Butte; the user's book is one specific family's path along the same route). Crossref both directions.

Also mentioned

• Riobárd Ó Dwyer

  Beara genealogist who travelled to Butte to help film the documentary. Source of the four inbox oral-history emails.

Places

• Beara Peninsula (primary)
• Butte, Montana (primary)
• West Cork (context)

Themes

• emigration_from_ireland
• irish_american_community
• west_cork
• mining_west

Story threads

• Berehaven Murphys
• Famine to emigration
• Butte Irish-American organisational life — Hibernians, Gaelic League, Erin's Daughters, RELA

Tags

• context_setting
• book_chapter_material
• source_primary_family

Related sources

• 2012-01-31 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó Dwyer — Riobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara wit — 'An Irish Prayer' (from his Butte 'From Beara to Butte' visit), 'Dan and the Pope,' 'Every old stocking finds an old shoe'
• 2012-02-01 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó Dwyer — Riobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara tales — 'The Carpenter's Coffin' and the blacksmith 'dentists' of Adrigole and Eyeries
• 2006-10-07 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó Dwyer — Riobárd Ó Dwyer's Famine oral history — 'Norry Tenpenny' of Allihies and the death-march to Bunmahon (Black '47)
• 2006-11-25 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer Papers, NEHGS (Mss 1097) — "Stories from Beara"; received as an email from Riobárd Ó Dwyer — Riobárd Ó Dwyer's Beara folktale — 'Tis a hard life the women have' (a Dursey Island role-reversal tale)
• 2008-02-16 — Riobárd Ó Dwyer "Annals of Beara" — Berehaven Parishes roster — Annals of Beara (Ó Dwyer) — Berehaven parishes roster page 21 of 29

Open questions

• Documentary date, director, distributor. Ó Dwyer's "years ago" framing in 2012 implies mid-late-2000s filming. Worth pinning down — would also identify the Butte mayor / chief executive who hosted Ó Dwyer.
• EPUB author / editor. Held but not yet text-extracted.