Bill Text: MI HR0254 | 2021-2022 | 101st Legislature | Enrolled
Bill Title: A resolution to declare March 17, 2022, as Irish-American Day in the state of Michigan.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)
Status: (Passed) 2022-03-17 - Adopted [HR0254 Detail]
Download: Michigan-2021-HR0254-Enrolled.html
house resolution no.254
Reps. Breen, Haadsma, Hood, Marino, Morse, Sneller, Steenland and Young offered the following resolution:
A resolution to declare March 17, 2022, as Irish-American Day in the state of Michigan.
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 other ethnic origins who, for one day, become Irish and celebrate Patrick and love of Ireland; and
Whereas, On Saint Patrick's Day, all who wear the green live for a day in the spirit of Saints Patrick, Bridget, and Columcille whose 1500th anniversary was in the last year; and
Whereas, Irish immigrants to the United States helped form the cultural foundation of the nation and those of Irish lineage today proudly sing support for Ireland; and
Whereas, We celebrate 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 to the mutual benefit of both countries with leadership in all 50 states; 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; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives, That the members of this legislative body declare March 17, 2022, as Irish-American Day in the state of Michigan. We commemorate the celebration of the Feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland.
