The Hill News

A British Monarch is in Ireland for the first time in a century.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh are making a state visit to Ireland, the first since King George V visited in 1911. It is a historic moment.  

When I dealt with Irish issues here in Washington in the mid-1980s, the tension and difficulty in my country’s relationship with our neighbor had been plain for some time. Many of the tens of millions of Americans who trace their ancestry to the Emerald Isle felt profoundly concerned by events in the North. We had many difficult debates.

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