Yahoo News Prince Charles And Camilla To Visit Ireland
The Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall are set to make their first official joint visit to Ireland next month.
The royal couple will spend four days in Ireland between 19 and 22 May, and will also visit Northern Ireland during the same period, Clarence House has revealed.
No details of their visit have been released yet.
In April last year, Charles and Camilla welcomed Irish President Michael D Higgins to the UK as part of the Irish State Visit.
The Prince has officially visited Ireland on two occasions - in May 1995 and February 2002.
Together, they have also made two official visits to Northern Ireland - in April last year and June 2013.
The visit is a sensitive one for Prince Charles, whose great-uncle Lord Louis Mountbatten was murdered by the Irish Republican Army in County Sligo in 1979.
He is also the Colonel in Chief of the Parachute Regiment, whose soldiers shot 14 people dead at a civil rights march in Derry on Bloody Sunday in 1972.
The Prince could also meet Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, who was the most senior IRA figure in Derry on Bloody Sunday.
Responding to the announcement, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said: "The visit by the British Queen to the Garden of Remembrance, her words of reconciliation and the subsequent meetings with Martin McGuinness demonstrated the potential of these events.
"I am conscious that Prince Charles is the symbolic head of the British Army's Parachute Regiment and the grievous wrong they have done including to the people of Derry and Ballymurphy where I grew up.
"However I am also conscious that the British Royal family have also been directly affected by the actions of republicans.
"I hope this visit will be an occasion to promote reconciliation, respect and understanding."
