- Dates
- 2023-09-07 – 2023-09-10
- Kind
- Celebration
- Followed by
- 2024 Emerald Isle Irish Féile
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- heritageirish-arranmoremusic-folklorecommunitytourism
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The 2023 Emerald Isle Irish Féile is attested by later BIIHG accounts as a successful festival organized while the Féile still operated as a Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce committee. The sources do not supply a date, final program, attendance, venue list, or complete participant record, so this is intentionally a year-level event record rather than a reconstructed schedule.1
Organizational context
The 2024 BIIHG announcement credits Shannon McDonough with leadership and organizational work for the 2023 festival and says that this work continued as the organization evolved into BIIHG. The November retrospective places the incorporation of the new nonprofit in November 2023. Neither source establishes whether that change occurred before, during, or after the festival itself.12
Open questions
- What were the 2023 dates, artists, activities, venues, and final attendance?
- Did the Arranmore Pipe Band visit take place as planned, and which source can confirm it independently of promotional reporting?
See also
Footnotes
Sources
- Contemporaneous notices identify the planned September 7–10 festival span, a proposed dock welcome for more than 125 Arranmore and Chicago guests, the public Hall of Fame ceremony, Currach races, Arranmore-themed Mass, and the August announcement that ticket sales had closed after venue-capacity limits were reached. These establish planned logistics and demand, not final attendance or completion of each activity.forum · www.beaverislandforum.com · 17 · t017886
- Northern Islander, June 2024, Beaver Island Irish Heritage Group announcement.Retrospective organization notice describes the success of the 2023 festival and says it was still operating as a Beaver Island Chamber of Commerce committee. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
- Northern Islander, November 2024, BIIHG organizational retrospective.States that BIIHG had been a Chamber committee since 2019 and was incorporated in November 2023; it provides organizational context but not a 2023 program or date. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Emerald Isle Irish Féile, 2023”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/emerald-isle-irish-feile-2023/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Island Forum, “(small) flash mob singing event to welcome guests from Arranmore/Chicago” and “Emerald Isle Irish Festival Public Notice,” August 10–30, 2023. (and 2 further sources listed on the page).
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