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2022 -- S 2683 Enacted 03/17/2022 |
S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
COMMEMORATING THE CELEBRATION OF SAINT PATRICK'S DAY AND RECOGNIZING THE CULTURAL AND HISTORIC LINKS BETWEEN IRELAND AND RHODE ISLAND AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE AMERICAN-IRISH STATE LEGISLATORS CAUCUS |
Introduced By: Senators Goodwin, McCaffrey, DiPalma, F Lombardi, and Valverde |
Date Introduced: March 17, 2022 |
WHEREAS, On March 17th, during the annual celebration of the Feast of Saint Patrick, |
the Patron Saint of Ireland, Irish Americans join with men, women and children of all ethnic |
origins who, for one day, all are considered honorary Irish and may celebrate Saint Patrick and |
love of Ireland; and |
WHEREAS, On Saint Patrick's Day, all who wear green live in the spirit of Saints |
Patrick, Brigid and Colmcille whose 1500th Anniversary as patron saints occurred during the last |
year; and |
WHEREAS, Irish immigrants to Rhode Island helped form the cultural foundation of our |
State, and Rhode Islanders of Irish lineage today proudly sing of their roots in Ballinamore and |
Ballinasloe, in Ennistymon and Enniscorthy, in Cahirciveen and Castlebarr, and in Skibbereen |
and Skerries; and |
WHEREAS, The songs of Ireland are the tragic songs of love and the joyous songs of |
battle: the nostalgic reveries of the sorrows and the glories that are the Emerald Isle; and the |
lamentations of life's myriad travails and the odes to joy and the life eternal; and |
WHEREAS, Rhode Island has always had a strong history of American Irish relations |
and the establishment of the American Irish State Legislators Caucus with its aim of fostering and |
strengthening the longstanding relationship that exists between the United States of America and |
Ireland will be of mutual benefit to both countries with leadership in all 50 states; now, therefore |
be it |
RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island hereby commemorates the |
celebration of the Feast of Saint Patrick, the Patron Saint of Ireland; and be it further |
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of the State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Senator Mark Daly, Chair of the Senate of |
Ireland, which on this year celebrates its 100th Anniversary, the National Co-Chairs of the |
American Irish State Legislators Caucus, and the President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, |
Rhode Island. |
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