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Milwaukee Currach Club

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TypeOrganization
Coordinates43.0411° N, 87.9094° WGoogle Maps: Milwaukee Currach ClubDownload KML
Organization
Coordinates
43.0411° N, 87.9094° WGoogle Maps: Milwaukee Currach ClubDownload KML

Milwaukee Currach Club

The Milwaukee Currach Club is a visiting rowing group documented in reports of Emerald Isle Irish Féile. A post-festival report says that it competed with the Beaver Island Irish Currach Club during the 2024 Féile’s Saturday currach races. A 2025 advance report says the Milwaukee group would return to race again.

Those reports establish the club’s recurring connection to the island festival, not a complete organizational history, roster, or founding date.

Sources

  • Northern Islander, October 2024, post-festival report, held in data/newspapers/charlevoix/ocr/markdown/northern_islander_2024.10.md.
  • Northern Islander, October 2025, festival advance report, held in data/newspapers/charlevoix/ocr/markdown/northern_islander_2025.10.md.

Evidence limits

The 2025 item was an advance announcement, not confirmation that every planned race occurred. Neither newspaper item independently documents the club’s incorporation, membership, or earlier activities.

Sources

  1. Northern Islander, October 2024 and October 2025.
    The 2024 post-event report says Milwaukee competed in Féile currach races; the 2025 advance report says the club would return. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
  2. Returned a city-level point at longitude -87.909421, latitude 43.041072. The held reports identify the group as Milwaukee-based but supply no club address; this is a city locator, not a rowing venue.

Added 3 August 2026 · revised 6 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Milwaukee Currach Club”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/milwaukee-currach-club/, accessed [date], citing Northern Islander, October 2024 and October 2025. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-06. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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