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Article: This murky, polluted town sits on one of the USA's richest hills..and was once known as Little Ireland; IMMIGRANTS RAN PLACE UNTIL ANTI-BRIT STRIKE SANK THEM.(News)
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- Sunday Mirror (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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Byline: JOHN KELLY
AMERICA's richest mining town was built by Irish emmigrants who risked their lives mining copper there at the turn of the last century.
Indeed, the community of Butte, Montana was so gaelic that:
Irish history was taught in schools
Until the 1940s Irish men ran the unions, saloons and lodging houses.
A small Republican army was trained and maintained in case it was needed to help an uprising against the British back in Ireland
An Irish-led strike was called in a bid to defeat the American war ...