How the eyes of the world watched the Queen and former IRA leader Martin McGuinness shake hands.
A year earlier, the Queen had broken new ground in Dublin, joining the then Irish President, Mary McAleese, to lay wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.Given that the garden is dedicated to those who died fighting British rule, this was another occasion that, at one time, would have seemed unimaginable.
If these scenes were a novelty in Cork, not so north of the border where the Queen was a frequent visitor over the decades.The Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh arrived by steam train to open the new Bellarena Station village in County Londonderry in 2016 When the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee in 1977, the Troubles were at their height. The IRA threatened to give the monarch a "visit to remember".
She often expressed sadness after atrocities committed during the Troubles. But the murder that hurt her most personally had to be the IRA's assassination of Earl Mountbatten, in 1979. The earl was her husband's uncle. She appeared to refer implicitly to his loss many years later in her Dublin speech.
"To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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