Every St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish Prime Minister gives a bowl of shamrocks to the president of the United States. The gesture, which began in 1952, has become a symbol of goodwill between the two countries and—as President Obama put it in 2009—”an affirmation of one of the strongest bonds between peoples that exist in the world.”
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