DUBLIN - Queen Elizabeth has extended its "deep sympathy" to the victims of Great Britain and Ireland interlaced history turbulent as both States wanted to visit a new departure in Anglo-Irish relations its inauguration.
The Queen said that it is "impossible to ignore the weight of history", while those who have lost life could never be forgotten, in the speech of his historic four-day state visit.
"It is a sad reality and regrettable that the history our islands have known more than their fair share of grief, loss and turbulence," the Queen said a State Wednesday banquet at Dublin Castle, the former headquarters of the British colonial power.
"These events we all, many of us have touched personally and are a painful legacy." We can never forget those who died or were injured and their families.
"All those who have suffered because of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deepest sympathy".
She added: "with historical hindsight we can see all the things that we wish were made differently or not at all.".
The Queen is a non-political figure with little power de facto over its Governments, it is not properly in its role to deliver excuses.
But his remarks were indeed more closely that she could go and will probably be interpreted as a giant step towards healing old divisions - all the more true to be delivered after visiting sensitive sites of the Ireland.
President Irish Mary McAleese said the first visit by a sovereign British to the Republic since it won its independence from London in 1922 is the "culmination of the success of the peace process", the peace agreements based on the 1998 Northern Ireland.
"It is a recognition that, although we cannot change the past, we have chosen to change the future", she told his guests.
The banquet came after Queen Elizabeth visited stadium in Croke Park in Dublin, where British forces killed 14 people in one attack of retaliation from 1920, as the struggle for the independence of the Ireland makes rage.
For many Irish people, the images of the British monarchy in such a bastion of freedom Irish were the most potent symbol of reconciliation.
The Queen also laid a wreath at the Irish National War Memorial Garden to honour Irish soldiers 49,400 killed fighting for Britain in the second world war.
Those who have served in the 1914-1918 conflict were ignored for decades because of the deep concern in Ireland them serving in British uniform during the independence struggle.
Queen Elizabeth also visited the Guinness brewery, the country's top tourist destination.
Tuesday, has seen a sheaf of Queen and tilt the head to the Memorial to those who died fighting for the freedom of the Irish.
After the emotion of these events, Thursday program has been to focus more on the culture and fun, with a visit in the national stud in Kildare, to the southwest of Dublin.
The Queen loves horses and responds to the race and is likely to be in his element that she visited the national stud farm, which promotes the Irish beasts and services to breeders.
The Queen, which owns several horses and still rides at 85, was to meet some of the countries top trainers and get closely with standards of the stud.
The Ireland is the third coach of Thoroughbreds in the world.
In the evening, the British Embassy was hosting his own celebration of the official visit of the Queen with a bash at the Convention of Dublin Centre for some 2,000 guests.
They will be treated to a presentation of British and Irish fashion, the Irish artists and Irish players giving readings of key works in the literary tradition of the Ireland.
Designers include John Rocha and Victoria Beckham, while artists include Westlife, the Chieftains, Riverdance and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Ireland has mounted the biggest security operation in its history with 10,000 police and soldiers guarding the Queen, with the public largely kept at distance because of the threat posed by dissident Republicans violently opposed to the peace process.
Irish Minister Enda Kenny said that the reaction to the visit of the Queen had been "exceptionally positive."
A group of Republican extremists tracksuited numbering less than 100 haunted between sites to visit on Wednesday, but were unable to get anywhere near the royal couple. Police made five arrests.
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