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Audio Recording Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish American priest, Butte, Montana, second interview, part 5

Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish priest at St. Lawrence in Butte, Montana

About this Item

Title

  • Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish American priest, Butte, Montana, second interview, part 5

Names

  • Stanton, Gary Ward, 1946- (Collector)
  • Johnson, Paula J., 1954- (Collector)
  • Toelken, Barre, 1935- (Collector)
  • O' Sullivan, Sarsfield (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Butte, Montana, September 1, 1979

Headings

  • -  Poetry
  • -  Irish Americans
  • -  Irish American Catholics
  • -  Folklore
  • -  Folk songs, Irish
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Field recordings
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Sound recordings
  • -  United States -- Montana -- Butte

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Field recordings
  • Interviews
  • Sound recordings

Notes

  • -  Index data: Part 5 of a 5-part recording session with Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan at the St. Lawrence O'Toole Roman Catholic Church rectory in Butte MT: O'Sullivan talks about how Serbians are the most fanatically religious people in Yugoslavia, priests are not permitted to speak to more than three people outside Mass (in Yugoslavia); O'Sullivan once went to Rome to see the canonization for Oliver Plunkett [or Plunket, canonized in 1975], first Irish saint in 750 years; about Patrick Sarsfield being held out of the battle by King James II [in the Williamite-Jacobite war in Ireland, ca. 1690], his response was "trade kings and we'll fight you again"; Popes often rejoiced more at English [Protestant] victories as opponents of France than they cared about Irish [Roman Catholic] losses; Sarsfield O'Sullivan's father Sean O'Sullivan's politics were different than those of his church, Sean was the only father for a number of fatherless families from [Wohman?] Street north, Sean was the master, below that was Jesus Christ, Sean's nickname was Irish; "Have You Been To the Rock," Sean's poetry; about cead milefailte (a hundred thousand welcomes); about the Jewish community in Butte, Dr. Raefish [Rafish?], "growing up in Butte I knew more about the Catholic feast days than about the Jewish"; about a poem Eamon (Sarsfield's brother, sometimes spelled Eamonn) wrote about his father (Sean O'Sullivan); "The Discovery of Noses" a Dublin Grotesquerie; about an Irish soldier's story with Victoria talking in brogue; "High Speculation"; melody to an anti-recruiting song; "In the Galtymore Mountains," a Tipperary song from 1915-1922; a Cork song to the tune of "County Down"; one of Father O'Sullivan's mother's stories about the lady who trained her dog to cry, "Let Her Go Doggie"; "A Merry Evening Makes a Sad Morning." Index data *

Medium

  • 7-inch reel

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/005: AFS 20454
  • MBRS shelflist: RXA 0940
  • Field project identifier: MT9-GS-R69

Source Collection

  • Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Montana Folklife Survey collection (AFC 1981/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, Paula J Johnson, Barre Toelken, and Sarsfield O' Sullivan. Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish American priest, Butte, Montana, second interview, part 5. Butte, Montana, September 1, 1979. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20454/.

APA citation style:

Stanton, G. W., Johnson, P. J., Toelken, B. & O' Sullivan, S. (1979) Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish American priest, Butte, Montana, second interview, part 5. Butte, Montana, September 1. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20454/.

MLA citation style:

Stanton, Gary Ward, et al. Father Sarsfield O'Sullivan, Irish American priest, Butte, Montana, second interview, part 5. Butte, Montana, September 1, 1979. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981005_afs20454/>.