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Handover of British rule: ‘After 700 years here, what difference does 7 minutes make?’
A hundred years ago this weekend marked the handover of British rule. This is an account of that day
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And just like the American War of Independence and the recent Civil War, the dislike and mistrust lingers on for many Irish people, and this is in spite of the fact that the British Army has not one, but TWO Irish regiments - the Irish Guards [of the Household Division] and the Royal Irish Regiment [the largest single regiment in the British Army.