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# The Queen in Ireland: symbolic visit to Croke Park
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## The Queen will make probably the most significant visit of her tour of
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Ireland today when she goes to Dublin's Croke Park, the site of a British
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massacre of Irish civilians which turned public sympathy decisively against
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the Government.
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[![Andy Bloxham][1]][2]
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By [Andy Bloxham][3] 7:51AM BST 18 May 2011
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[Follow Andy Bloxham on Twitter][4]
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The visit is another milestone in public acknowledgements by the monarch of
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the past wrongs committed by Britain during its rule of Ireland.
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In 1920 as Croke Park, today an 82,000-seater stadium, hosted a Gaelic
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football challenge match, British soldiers shot dead 12 spectators and one
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player - an atrocity that became known as "Bloody Sunday".
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A further victim later died from his injuries.
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The attack was an apparent reprisal as the night before Irish nationalists had
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shot dead 14 members of the British Armed Forces - members of a team of
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undercover agents working in Dublin.
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The stadium is the home of Ireland's Gaelic Athletic Association which has
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pledged to give the Queen a warm greeting when she arrives.
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* [Key historic locations on watershed tour's first day][9]
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18 May 2011
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David Cameron, the Prime Minister, will also join the Queen today for part of
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her trip - highlighting the importance of the visit.
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Mr Cameron will hold talks with Enda Kenny, the Taoiseach, before joining the
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Queen and Duke of Edinburgh at a lavish state dinner at Dublin Castle hosted
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by Mary McAleese, the Irish President, in honour of the Royal couple.
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The monarch will give her only speech of her four-day state visit during the
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banquet and Mrs McAleese will also make an address.
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During the day, the Republic's First World War dead will be honoured by the
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Queen when she visits the Irish National War Memorial to lay a wreath.
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The ceremony builds on the symbolic reconciliation in 1998 when the Queen and
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the President unveiled a tower on the site of the battle of Messines Ridge in
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memory of the Irish dead of the First World War, and to inaugurate the Island
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of Ireland Peace Park.
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It was the first public event undertaken by an Irish and British head of
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state.
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The popular tourist attraction of the Guinness Storehouse is also on the royal
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itinerary and will be a relaxing visit for the Royal couple who will watch the
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'perfect pint' being poured by a master brewer.
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Ireland may be famous for the black stuff but the Queen's favourite tipple is
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gin and Dubonnet served with two ice cubes and a slice of lemon.
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The day's busy round of trips will also see the royal couple meet Mr Kenny at
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his department in Dublin's Government Buildings.
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Yesterday when the Queen arrived in the Irish capital for the start of her
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historic tour, she laid a wreath at the Garden of Remembrance, which honours
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all those who died for Irish freedom in the early part of the 20th century.
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## [Queen Elizabeth II][16]
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