Beaver Island ArchiveA primary-source archive & encyclopedia45°40′N 85°33′W · Lake Michigan
Search

Event

St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1991

Also St. Patrick's Day Celebrations 1991

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
Dates1991-03-15 – 1991-03-17
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1991-03-15 – 1991-03-17
Kind
Celebration
Where
The Shamrock · Holy Cross Parish Hall
Followed by
St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1992
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritageirish-arranmore
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Beacon’s February 1991 calendar and March 1991 feature article report a weekend of festivities: Friday evening music at the Shamrock Bar, and a Saturday parade followed by a shopping cart race, a Fish Stomp relay, and an “Irishman’s Lucky Toss” trivia game, plus a Holy Cross Church Hall dance named on the calendar for the same Saturday.

Program

Friday evening: live music at the Shamrock Bar. Saturday: a parade with multiple costumed and float entries (Girl Leprechauns and Irish Clown, “Lil’ Miss Ireland and Her Court,” a “McNamara’s Band” float, a Chamber of Commerce “Your Gold at the End of the Rainbow” float, the “Walking Shamrocks,” and a Boy Scouts entry); a shopping cart race with four ranked teams; a Fish Stomp relay; and an “Irishman’s Lucky Toss” dart-and-trivia game on Irish topics. The Chamber of Commerce sold Beaver Island cookies, cocoa, pins, maps, and American flags during the festivities. The calendar separately lists a Saturday Holy Cross Church Hall dance.

Evidence limits

The report names many participants and event winners for the parade and games but no single organizing body for the day as a whole — no “Clan-Na-Gael” organization article exists in this knowledge base, so carried_out_by is left empty. No proceeds or attendance figures are given, and the Holy Cross Church Hall dance is only named on the calendar, not described in the narrative report. No Chicago, Lansing, or Grand Rapids diaspora party is mentioned in the sections read for this year.

Open questions

  • Who organized the 1991 games program, and was it the same “Clan-Na-Gael” group credited by name in the 1990 and 1992 editions?
  • What was the outcome of the Holy Cross Church Hall dance named on the calendar?

See also

Sources

  1. Calendar entries: "March 16: St. Patrick's Day Festivities Downtown," "March 16: St. Patrick's Day Dance - Holy Cross Church Hall," and "March 17: St. Patrick's Day." A Chamber of Commerce item separately notes it will sell U.S. flags "during the St. Patrick's Day Parade." The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1991-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eighteen-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1991-02_Beaver-Beacon
  3. Reports: "For once, the weather cooperated and the weekend was sunny and warm." Friday evening, live music at the Shamrock Bar (Cindy Gillespie, Kevin White, Joddy Croswhite, with Robert Cole joining in on songs) "for a full house." Saturday: a parade with numerous named entries including Deputy Jim Owens, a "Girl Leprechauns and Irish Clown" entry, a "Lil' Miss Ireland and Her Court" entry, a "McNamara's Band" float, a Chamber of Commerce "Your Gold at the End of the Rainbow" float, a "Walking Shamrocks" youth group, a Boy Scouts entry, and shopping cart races with named team results, a Fish Stomp relay (heads on a baseball bat, spin, then carry a fish to a teammate), and an "Irishman's Lucky Toss" dart-and-trivia game about Ireland. A later item thanks the Chamber of Commerce for selling Beaver Island cookies, cocoa, pins, maps, and American flags around the festivities. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1991-03_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held eighteen-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1991-03_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1991”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-1991/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1991, calendar page. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

BibTeXRIS