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Queen on first state visit to Republic of Ireland
BBC ^
| 5/17/11
| Staff
Posted on 05/17/2011 10:37:57 AM PDT by mgstarr
The Queen is set to begin the first visit to the Republic of Ireland by a British monarch.
President Mary McAleese will formally welcome the Queen at her Dublin home.
King George V was the last reigning monarch to visit the country, in 1911, when what is now the Republic was then part of the UK.
The Queen was invited to visit by President McAleese, who will formally welcome the monarch at Aras an Uachtarain, her home in Dublin's Phoenix Park.
The president told state broadcaster RTE it was "an extraordinary moment in Irish history - a phenomenal sign and signal of the success of the peace process and absolutely the right moment for us to welcome onto Irish soil Her Majesty the Queen".
Mrs McAleese said the two countries were "forging a new future - a future very, very different from the past, on very different terms from the past - and I think the visit will send the message that we are, both jurisdictions, determined to make the future a much, much better place."
The relationship between the Crown and Ireland has been one of the longest and most difficult in the history of Britain's monarchy
UK Prime Minister David Cameron said: "One hundred years on from the last time a British monarch visited Ireland, I think there is a great sense of history and occasion."
He added: "I think the real effect... will be a marker that just as we are solving some of the problems there have been between us in the past, just as we are helping each other through these difficult economic times, now is a great moment for people in Britain and people in Ireland to remember what it is we share."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: ireland; qe2; queenelizabeth
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posted on
05/17/2011 10:37:59 AM PDT
by
mgstarr
To: mgstarr
The English should make them a colony again.
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posted on
05/17/2011 10:53:52 AM PDT
by
Mandingo Conservative
(Satan was like the first "community organizer", just ask Eve, the first liberal useful idiot!)
To: mgstarr
Queen of what?.. england is not a monarchy..
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posted on
05/17/2011 10:55:00 AM PDT
by
hosepipe
(This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
To: Mandingo Conservative
I can think of a few more countries you could say that about...
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posted on
05/17/2011 10:55:48 AM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: Mandingo Conservative
The Irish should kick their tyrannical asses out of Ulster.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
05/17/2011 10:57:21 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: Mandingo Conservative
Ní bheidh Éire unfree a bheith ag an tsíocháin
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:06:44 AM PDT
by
Paddyboy
To: ConorMacNessa
There’d be a lot of dry eyes in England if the Irish left the union and had to pay their own way.
See also: Scotland.
Go on, secede already. Knock yourselves out.
What are you waiting for?
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:08:08 AM PDT
by
agere_contra
("Debt is the foundation of destruction" : Sarah Palin.)
To: Mandingo Conservative
The English should make them a colony again.
WTF - 800 years of subjugation and genocide wasn't enough?
If the feckin' Limeys had any balls and treated their muzzies the same as the did the Irish, they might have a chance to save themselves.
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:26:00 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: agere_contra
I suppose I should thank them for their benevolent and sagacious management of the island during an Gorta Mór - seven of my eight great-grandparents came to America as a result.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:44:21 AM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: agere_contra
Thered be a lot of dry eyes in England if the Irish left the union and had to pay their own way. See also: Scotland. Go on, secede already. Knock yourselves out. The UK would be better off all around splitting up - and don't forget Wales! More local accountability, less collective insanity.
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:52:25 AM PDT
by
Crichton
To: Crichton
The UK would be better off all around splitting up - and don't forget Wales!And Cornwall!
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posted on
05/17/2011 11:54:37 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: agere_contra
It'll be a moot issue in twenty or thirty years - the Muslims are outbreeding you and will soon take over.
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
05/17/2011 12:18:04 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN '69 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle!)
To: AU72
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posted on
05/17/2011 12:20:29 PM PDT
by
Crichton
To: agere_contra
More plastic paddies here than in a get together of the Republic of Ireland soccer team!
To: ConorMacNessa
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posted on
05/17/2011 1:22:44 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: oh8eleven
If the feckin' Limeys had any balls and treated their muzzies the same as the did the Irish, they might have a chance to save themselves. Hear, hear, lad!!
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posted on
05/17/2011 1:24:14 PM PDT
by
La Enchiladita
(Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
To: mgstarr
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