When in Ireland, do as the Irish do and wear green. At their Dublin meeting, PM Kenny presented PM Modi with a special gift that nodded just to the Irish love of green but also to the Indian love of cricket.
Connected by cricket...thankful to Mr. Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach of Ireland for presenting this personalised cricket jersey of the cricket team of Ireland.
Posted by Narendra Modi on Wednesday, 23 September 2015
That right there is the Irish Cricket team's official jersey, personalized with PM Modi's name.
The gifts also include a sliotar and hurley, objects used in the Irish sport called 'Hurling'.
Irish PM Enda Kenny also presents PM Modi with a Hurling (Irish national sport) bat and ball pic.twitter.com/LUhj2bWSeW
— ANI (@ANI_news) September 23, 2015PM Modi, only the second Indian prime minister to visit the country after Jawaharlal Nehru, had presents for PM Kenny in return - special manuscripts and papers from the National Archives of India.
Presented reproductions of selected manuscripts & papers from the National Archives of India to Mr. @EndaKennyTD. pic.twitter.com/t9E18ia5pI
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015In a series of tweets, PM Modi explained more about his present.
The selection is connected with Irish officials, Mr. Thomas Oldham & Sir George Abraham Grierson, recognising their contribution to India.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015Thomas Oldham was appointed geological surveyor in 1850. His joining day in 1851 is marked as foundation day of Geological Survey of India.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015Mr. Oldham conducted 1st systemic coal mapping of India & later initiated mapping of other minerals. He wrote a lot about fossils in India.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015Sir George A Grierson conducted the 1st linguistic survey of India, which was published over several years between 1903 to 1928.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India provided 1st scientifically based taxonomy of Indo-Aryan languages. pic.twitter.com/OdEqIkjeX8
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015This wasn't all. There was another gift for PM Kenny, an Irish shamrock made in India.
Also presented Mr. @EndaKennyTD a specially handcrafted piece of silver marble and roughly hewn sandstone rock. http://t.co/d2Bw6rJR59
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 23, 2015
After delegation talks with the Irish prime minster, PM Modi will head to New York City to begin a six-day tour of the US.
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