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Northern Irish reconciliation includes exchange of visits to rival historic sites

The politician son of firebrand unionist Ian Paisley is to visit a military exhibition at a Dublin museum named after former IRA leader Michael Collins, it has been revealed.

It is the latest in a series of remarkable meetings signalling an apparently new-found neighbourliness between the hard-line Democratic Unionist Party and the Irish Republic...

Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern will guide the junior minister-designate in the restored Stormont power-sharing executive in Belfast around Collins Barracks tomorrow.

The former military base handed over by the British Army to the newly-founded Irish Free State in 1922 was later transferred to the National Museum...

[Two weeks ago the Irish prime minister] invited the 81-year-old anti-Catholic evangelical preacher to visit the Battle of the Boyne site with him later this year.

The historic site in the Republic marks where King William of Orange defeated the army of King James in 1690, a victory celebrated every year by many Protestants in Northern Ireland.
Read entire article at UTV (Belfast, Northern Ireland)