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Speech at the Guildhall Banquet
London, 9th April 2014
Your Royal Highnesses:
Lord Mayor:
Tánaiste:
Excellencies:
Ladies and Gentlemen
Mar Uachtarán na Éireann, as President of Ireland, I am deeply honoured and greatly pleased to be here with you tonight in celebration of what is the first State Visit by a President of Ireland to the United Kingdom.
I am of course conscious of the particular role that the Guildhall has played in Irish history. It was here, in 1609, that the Irish Society was conceived, during a meeting at which…


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