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Pakistan Chronicle
| 2 years ago
Large crowds cheered Queen Elizabeth for the first time on her historic visit to Ireland on Friday, as police relaxed security for the final day of a bridge-building mission widely seen as a success. After an arrival marred by bomb scares and a riot...
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Leader Post Online
| 2 years ago
Ireland Britain's Queen Elizabeth II concluded her historic visit to Ireland the first by a British monarch to the Republic with a visit to the southern city of Cork Friday. Thousands lined the streets of Cork to greet the queen, whose visit has been...
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BBC
| 2 years ago
This visit will stand alongside any that the Queen has made during her reign in terms of its significance...She has said and done things in the past four days which have impressed all but the most extreme Irish republicans, whilst at the same time...
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BBC
| 2 years ago
Queen makes 'giant leap for British-Irish relations' BBC Ireland Correspondent Getting off on the right foot: The Queen arrived in Ireland wearing green She came, she saw, she conquered the sceptics. The Queen won over the Dublin doubters who thought...
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Newyork Times
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II began a final day of choreographed appointments in the Irish Republic on Friday after a visit seen as breaking significant diplomatic ground even as a leading republican said the effort had not gone far enough. During her four-day...
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The New York Times
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II began a final day of choreographed appointments in the Irish Republic on Friday after a visit seen as breaking significant diplomatic ground even as a leading republican said the effort had not gone far enough. During her four-day...
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HNN
| 2 years ago
The national anthem was also played as the the Queen and President Mary McAleese stood side by side at the site where Ireland commemorates the men and women who died resisting British rule. The first official royal visit since independence took place...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II made a powerful statement Wednesday night expressing "deep sympathy" to all who had suffered as a result of the troubled relations between England and Ireland. She did not apologize for any British actions during the bitter...
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GMA News
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth offered her sympathy and regret on Wednesday to all those who had suffered from centuries of conflict between Britain and Ireland in a powerful and personal address to the Irish nation. "To all those who have suffered as a consequence...
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The Globe & Mail
| 2 years ago
It was a somewhat inauspicious moment, in the midst of a financial crisis and just after a royal wedding, that the Queen and the Irish President chose to descend together, at long last, into the deepest black hole of collective guilt and victimhood.
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Epoch Times
| 2 years ago
May 18, 2011 Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (C) walks out from the player tunnel with Irish President Mary McAlesse (L) and GAA President Mr. Christy Cooney, at Croke Park stadium in Dublin, on May 18. Croke Park stadium is where British soldiers shot...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 years ago
Getty Images Queen Elizabeth II extended her "deep sympathy" to all those who suffered in the turbulent, intertwined history of Britain and Ireland, in the keynote speech on Wednesday of her historic state visit here. The first British monarch to...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| 2 years ago
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to visit Croke Park stadium in Dublin Wednesday...Queen's visit to Croke Park is seen as a symbolic gesture of reconciliation by Britain. It is to be noted that the park grabbed headlines in 1920 when British...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth was welcomed to Dublin's Croke Park Wednesday by the head of the Gaelic Athletic Association, a historically nationalist group. The stadium visit had been requested by Irish President Mary McAleese in recognition of the GAA's role in...
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HNN
| 2 years ago
Wearing a green hat and coat, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday became the first British monarch in a century to set foot on Irish soil, during a trip designed to celebrate improved Anglo-Irish relations . In a scene that seemed impossible until recently,...
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Al Jazeera English
| 2 years ago
22 Britain's queen has marked a new era in the history of Anglo-Irish relations by visiting Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland's capital, where British troops massacred 14 civilians at a football match 91 years ago. Eamon Gilmore, the Irish foreign...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II's journey of reconciliation has taken her to the site of a notorious massacre where British troops killed 14 Irish civilians in 1920.
The queen's visit to Croke Park on the second day of her historic trip to the...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday visited a memorial to the 49,400 Irish soldiers killed fighting for Britain in World War I in a highly-charged ceremony on the second day of her historic visit to Ireland. The queen laid a wreath at the Irish National War...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II's journey of reconciliation was taking her Wednesday to the site of a notorious massacre where British troops killed 14 Irish civilians in 1920.
The queen's visit to Croke Park on the second day of her historic trip...
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Newyork Times
| 2 years ago
On the second day of a historic visit to the Irish Republic, Queen Elizabeth II planned on Wednesday to visit the site of a massacre 91 years ago that still evokes memories of fierce hostilities between Dublin and London. The queen arrived in the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 2 years ago
On the second day of a historic visit to the Irish Republic, Queen Elizabeth II planned on Wednesday to visit the site of a massacre 91 years ago that still evokes memories of fierce hostilities between Dublin and London. The queen arrived in the...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
We need a new British-Irish relationship The Queen of England's visit hints at new possibilities. But complete normalisation requires the reunification of our country The Queen of England and the Irish president Mary McAleese lay wreaths at the...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II plans to visit a historic massacre site Wednesday where British troops killed 14 civilians in 1920.
The queen's visit to Croke Park during the second day of her landmark visit to the Republic of Ireland will highlight...
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The Globe & Mail
| 2 years ago
It took 100 years to happen, it was loaded with centuries of painful history and decades of awful violence, and it required 8,000 police officers to make it possible, but it was, when it happened, just a handshake. At midday on Tuesday, Mary McAleese,...
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The Scotsman
| 2 years ago
The Easter Rising of 1916, bloodily suppressed, and the war of liberation which followed the end of the war in Europe led to the partition of Ireland and the creation of the Irish Free State, which would become the Republic. The invitation to the...
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The Scotsman
| 2 years ago
Getty Images "Where are the lads that stood with me When history was made? A Ghra Mo Chroi (love in my heart), I long to see The boys of the old brigade." FOR almost three generations it has been sung as a poignant lament for the fallen in the Irish...
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The independent
| 2 years ago
the first British monarch to do so since 1911 Although the Queen's flight from London to Dublin took less than an hour yesterday, it was a full century in the making; Britain and Ireland only now deciding that the timing was finally right.
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Los Angeles Times
| 2 years ago
Her historic four-day trip is testament to the new reality of Anglo-Irish relations, a seal on the reconciliation of two nations bound by a complicated and bloody past. For decades after Ireland gained its independence from Britain in 1922,...
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Taiwan News
| 2 years ago
Sometimes words aren't necessary. That was the case Tuesday when Queen Elizabeth II placed a wreath in Dublin's Garden of Remembrance to honor the Irish rebels who lost their lives fighting for freedom _ from Britain.
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The New Zealand Herald
| 2 years ago
Undeterred by real or fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II overnight began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking...Patrick'...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
Our mutal catharsis Elizabeth's visit to Dublin is not a joyful occasion but it is an authentically historic rapprochement Queen Elizabeth II with President Mary McAleese in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin today. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images Of...
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Sky News
| 2 years ago
The British national anthem was played as the monarch stood beside Irish President Mary McAleese during the first official royal visit in 100 years, and the first since independence. The visit took place amid the biggest security operation ever...
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The Hindu
| 2 years ago
May 17, 2011 Symbolism does not come cheap as recession-hit Ireland discovered on Tuesday when the Queen the first British monarch ever to visit the independent Republic of Ireland arrived in Dublin on a four-day visit whose security cost alone was...
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Toronto Star
| 2 years ago
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, right, is greeted by Irish Tanaiste and Foreign Affairs Minister Eamon Gilmore as she arrives at Baldonnel Airport in Dublin for a four-day visit, on May 17. Undeterred by real and fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II on...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Undeterred by real or fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 years ago
The Queen laid a wreath at Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, Ireland's monument to its fallen heroes, before a hushed crowd of dignitaries, soldiers and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, whose uncle was killed by militant Irish nationalists in 1979.
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International Business Times
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II the first British monarch to visit Ireland after 100 years. May 17, 2011 11:09 AM EDT The Queen became the first British monarch to set foot on the Republic of Ireland in 100 years...BBC reported that the Queen's arrival ensued one...
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International Business Times
| 2 years ago
In a stunningly symbolic gesture, the Queen laid a wreath at the Dublin's Garden of Remembrance, which memorialize those who died fighting for Irish independence against British rule. Elizabeth also wore an outfit that is emerald green, the Irish...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 years ago
Story continues below The queen is the first British sovereign to visit Ireland since it won independence from Britain in 1922, while the last monarch to come to the country was King George V, the queen's grandfather, in 1911. "I think it is an...
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Leader Post Online
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth arrived in Dublin on Tuesday for a historic state visit steeped in symbolism and surrounded by security after a makeshift bomb was found, highlighting the lingering hostility of a small minority. The visit, the first by a British...
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Washington Post
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II began her first-in-a-century royal visit to Ireland on Tuesday, just hours after Irish police discovered a bomb in the luggage compartment of a bus traveling to Dublin. The British monarch's visit is seen as a dramatic symbol of...
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KSAZ
| 2 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Dublin on Tuesday, becoming the first British monarch to visit the Republic of Ireland. The queen and Prince Philip touched down at Dublin's Casement Aerodrome amid tight security following a series of bomb threats and...
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The News Journal
| 2 years ago
Undeterred by real and fake bombs, Queen Elizabeth II today began the first visit by a British monarch to the Republic of Ireland, a four-day trip to highlight strong Anglo-Irish relations and peace in neighboring Northern Ireland. The 85-year-old...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
A bomb was found on a bus hours before British Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Dublin, Ireland, for a historic state visit Tuesday, police said. The bomb, described by police as a "viable improvised explosive device," was found Monday night in the...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| 2 years ago
The Blender 'Power Vertical' 'The Iran Sound From Way Out' Queen Elizabeth II Starts Historic Irish Trip Britain's Queen Elizabeth May 17, 2011 Queen Elizabeth II starts a landmark state visit to Ireland today. It will be the first by a British...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
The Irish army destroyed a makeshift bomb discovered on a bus near Dublin on Tuesday ahead of a historic visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth, amid the biggest security operation ever mounted by the state. The visit, the first by a British monarch...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Authorities have defused a bomb hours before Queen Elizabeth II starts the first officials visit by a British monarch to Ireland in over a century on Tuesday, a trip designed to celebrate the healing of ancient wounds and the triumph of peacemaking...
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Inquirer.net
| 2 years ago
Elizabeth II embarks Tuesday on the first visit to Ireland by a British monarch in a century after troops defused a bomb near Dublin following threats by republican hardliners. The landmark four-day trip is aimed at normalizing relations between the...
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Eitb24
| 2 years ago
EFE The Irish army blew up a makeshift bomb found in a bus outside Dublin ahead of a historic visit by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday, amid the biggest security operation ever mounted by the state. The Queen's visit, the first by a British...
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The Boston Globe
| 2 years ago
Much of central Dublin has been closed off by police to prepare for the landmark visit of Queen Elizabeth II, who is set to become the first British monarch to set foot in the Republic of Ireland despite rising security concerns. The queen and her...
