Butte, Montana, is one of the country's most thoroughly Irish-American cities. Many of the miners from the Beara Peninsula, who had worked in the copper mines in Allihes in southwest Cork, traveled to Butte for work in the mines.

'"More than 55 percent of the Irish who settled Butte, Montana came from County Cork's four parishes. By 1900, Butte had 12,000 residents of Irish descent in a population of 47,635. One quarter of the population was Irish, a higher percentage than any other American city at the turn of the last century" [Find Article - The Miners of Beara and Butte (Irish Emigration to Montana. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3593/is_200012/ai_n8540067]

"the Irish-born among Butte's thousands of Irishmen were principally drawn from the idle copper mines of West Cork and from landless farm laborers and small farmers of the West of Ireland." [Miners in Migration... http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FKX/is_2001_Spring-Summer/ai_80532347] Cited from David Emmons' award-winning Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925.

Beara - Butte Links

From Beara to Butte

Riobard O'Dwyer's Research and Film Documentary - From Beara to Butte

Remembering Butte's Irish on St. Patrick's Day

The Miners of Beara and Butte

Beara Butte Kevin Stevens Writings

Montana Mining Association - Ireland's Copper Mining Museum

Allihes Mine Museum on Beara Info