‘A Tribute To The Irish Community Butte Montana 1916-1919’ is both biographical and autobiographical. It revolves around memory, narrative, and family history told to Graham by her grandmother of her childhood memories. Graham combines personal history with her sense of humour to create quirky and humorous characters and scenes. As a child, she was intrigued by the stories about her grandmother's childhood in Butte, Montana, at the start of the twentieth century and how it was to be an Irish American whose family was very involved in the Fenian movement. At the age of three, her grandmother unknowingly smuggled money into Ireland. It was hidden in her doll's pram to aid the 1916 Easter Rising. Her ever-growing curiosity and voracious appetite for narrative demanded the constant retelling of these stories.

Even with time, these memories are embellished and gilded in her mind, and she can retrieve them with the most exquisite detail. Graham can visualise her grandmother as a child enjoying cowboy shootouts or enduring car overcrowding as the community travelled vast distances to listen to Eamonn DeValera at the rallies. She can still sense her grandmother's apprehension when she recalls the stories of the mine bell ringing as her grandmother witnessed the worst mining disaster in United States history. This reminiscence has instilled in Graham's mind the importance of oral history and the storytelling tradition from one generation to another.