Dublin, Ireland (CNN) -- Queen Elizabeth II is due to visit Croke Park stadium in Dublin Wednesday on the second day of her landmark tour to Ireland.
The visit to Croke Park is another significant symbolic gesture of reconciliation -- British troops opened fire on a crowd watching a Gaelic football match there in 1920, killing 14.
On Wednesday morning the queen met the Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and senior cabinet ministers at Government Buildings as part of her state tour, the first by a UK monarch since the country gained independence in 1922.
Later she laid a wreath at the National War Memorial Gardens in Islandbridge in a tribute to the 49,000 Irish soldiers who died in World War I.
Gerry O'Regan, editor of the Irish Independent, said: "This is a triumph of really careful planning and shows a strong intent on both sides to make it work". CNN
