[Dublin: The sheer shock of Queen Elizabeth speaking Gaelic during her remarks at a state dinner in her honor was bad enough.
Then there was the shot of her standing to attention for the Irish national anthem, and then of her laying a wreath on the remembrance plot for IRA heroes.
This is all too much to bear.
Do I wake or dream?
Has someone invented a Bizzaro world, you know that planet that Superman lived on before he came down to earth where everything was the direct opposite of what it was supposed to be?
What has happened here this week in Ireland has been little short of extraordinary.
Basically, the British have made the decision to bury the hatchet.
That was not a decision taken lightly, the British never do that.
But when they move they do it in style
After 800 years or so of intermittent warfare of the worst kind, the emissary in the shape of the queen has come to announce terms.
Those terms are splashed across every front page of the Irish media today.
'What were once hopes for the future have now come to pass' says The Irish Times headline, a direct quote from the queen.
The future has arrived in the new era for the Irish and British peoples.
There will be no more war.]
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/queen-elizabeth-announces-end-to-war-between-irish-and-british------historic-visit-brings-end-to-800-year-conflict-122221939.html
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