Taoiseach at rare tree-planting in Washington as symbol of Ireland’s strong roots in US
Pictured from left to right: Congressman Brendan Boyle; chief operating officer for the Architect of the Capitol Christine Merdon; Congressman Mick Mulvaney; House of Representatives chaplain Fr Patrick Conroy and Taoiseach Enda Kenny
[The] ceremony was all about the strong roots the Irish have put down in the United States over the centuries. It is quite an honour for Mother Ireland to have a tree planted for her at the Capitol. Irish Senator Mark Daly, who came up with the idea to commemorate the leaders of the 1916 Rising, was told in a letter from Boyle in April that it “only happens three or four times a century”.
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