Nicknamed "Man with the Golden Trumpet", Carroll is a native of Castlerea, County Roscommon. So highly regarded were Phillips' oratorical abilities that he was known as "abolition's golden trumpet". The national flower of Brazil is the flower of the Golden Trumpet Tree ("Handroanthus albus"). The common names of the species include the golden trumpet and the bell Omphalina. The golden trumpet tree is grown outside Brasil as a street tree and garden tree.