Mr Martin will present President Biden with the traditional shamrock bowl and will meet with Vice President Kamala Harris. He will also meet with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and with members of the US Congress Friends of Ireland Caucus, who mark their 40th anniversary on St Patrick’s Day. The Taoiseach’s programme commences on Monday from Government Buildings with a policy address to the Washington-based Brookings Institution in which he will set out his thinking on managing relations on and off the island in the post-Brexit context. That evening, Mr Martin will speak at the US launch of ‘From Whence I Came: The Kennedy Legacy, Ireland & America', edited by Brian Murphy & Donnacha Ó Beacháin.