| R 169 |
| 2022 -- H 7996 Enacted 03/17/2022 |
| H O U S 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: Representatives Slater, Messier, McGaw, Casey, Hawkins, Edwards, Kennedy, McNamara, Shekarchi, and Blazejewski |
| 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 House of Representatives 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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