2022 -- H 7996

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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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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

     Referred To: House read and passed

     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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