Political leaders across Ireland unite in tributes to Queen

Monarch’s 2011 landmark visit to Dublin and handshake with ex-IRA leader Martin McGuinness recalled

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Political leaders across Ireland and Northern Ireland have united in tribute to the Queen and hailed her role in applying balm to centuries of conflict between nationalism and unionism, one of the most consequential uses of her symbolic power.

All sides recalled her landmark visit to Dublin in 2011, when Irish people gave her a rapturous welcome, and her handshake in 2012 with Martin McGuinness, the IRA-leader turned deputy first minister.

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