res23167

R 167

2023 -- S 0678
Enacted 03/16/2023

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

Introduced By: Senators Burke, Euer, Cano, Raptakis, Lawson, Ujifusa, Picard, Murray, Sosnowski, and F. Lombardi

Date Introduced: March 16, 2023

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 Anniversary as patron saints is celebrated annually; 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 in 2021, with its aim of

fostering and strengthening the longstanding relationship that exists between the United States of

America and Ireland is 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 a duly certified copy of this resolution to the President of the Ancient Order of

Hibernians, Rhode Island.

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