Éamon a Búrc (1866–1942) was a tailor and Irish storyteller or seanchaí. Born to an Irish-speaking family in Carna, County Galway, Ireland, Éamon a Búrc, was brought by his parents to Graceville, Minnesota in 1880. Their passage was paid for by Archbishop John Ireland, who wished to fill up the Minnesota prairie with Irish-American farm families. After a severe blizzard struck on 15 October 1880, the condition of the Connemara refugees became an international scandal. The a Búrc family was evicted from their claim and resettled in a Saint Paul, Minnesota shantytown which was dubbed the Connemara Patch. Éamon and his father went to work for the Great Northern Railway of James J. Hill. After losing a leg in a work-related accident, Éamon returned to Ireland and went to work as a tailor at hi