Poets, musicians and Brian Boru’s harp arrayed for royal visitor

TWENTY years of peace building have come to fruition with the queen’s visit, said former President Mary Robinson.

Ms Robinson lauded the contribution of the Northern Ireland political process which ended violence in 1994 and said without it “today would not have happened”.

She was invited to Cambridge to accept an honorary degree in 1991 and two years later had tea with the queen in an unprecedented diplomatic breakthrough.