What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
Queen Elizabeth IIThe upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
Queen Elizabeth II[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.
Queen Elizabeth II