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St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1994

Also 1994 Annual St. Patrick's Dance

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TypeEvent
Date1994-03-18
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Date
1994-03-18
Kind
Celebration
Where
Holy Cross Parish Hall · The Shamrock
Followed by
St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1995
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritageirish-arranmore
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The Beaver Beacon’s February and March 1994 issues advertise an “Annual St. Patrick’s Dance” at the Hall on Friday, March 18th, and its April 1994 issue confirms — in a deliberately content-free humor column — that a separate St. Patrick’s Day party also took place at the Shamrock that year.

Program

A dance “at the Hall,” Friday, March 18th, 9:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m., with live music, a cash bar, and a buffet; admission $8 per person or $15 per couple.

Evidence limits

Neither the dance advertisement nor the Shamrock humor column names an organizing body, so carried_out_by is left empty. The April item is an intentional non-account — the Beacon’s own joke is that nothing about the Shamrock party “may ever be told” — so it confirms the party occurred without describing what happened, and this article’s Program section is limited accordingly to the dance advertisement’s factual detail. No proceeds or attendance figures are given for either event, and no parade or Clan-Na-Gael-style games are mentioned in the issues read for this year.

Open questions

  • Did 1994 include a daytime parade or games program comparable to 1989-1993, or had that format lapsed by this year?
  • Who organized the Annual St. Patrick’s Dance “at the Hall”?

See also

Sources

  1. Identical advertisement in both issues: "ANNUAL ST. PATRICK'S DANCE at the Hall, Friday, March 18th, 9:00 til 2:00, Live Music * Cash Bar * Buffet, Admission $8.00 each, Couples $15.00." No sponsoring organization or organizer is named in the ad. 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 · 1994-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held sixteen-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 · 1994-02_Beaver-Beacon
  3. A humor column confirming a St. Patrick's Day party took place at the Shamrock but deliberately withholding any factual account: "It is the Beacon management's heartfelt conviction that saloons, particularly Irish saloons, on th' Good St. paddy's Day, are 'sanctuary,'" concluding only "What was it like at the Shamrock at the St. Patrick's Day Party? ... Join us next year." No date, attendance, organizer, or program detail is given. 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 · 1994-04_Beaver-Beacon
  4. The held sixteen-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 · 1994-04_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “St. Patrick's Day on Beaver Island, 1994”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-st-patricks-day-1994/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1994 and March 1994, "ANNUAL ST. PATRICK'S DANCE" advertisement. (and 3 further sources listed on the page).

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