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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