ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) ? Queen Elizabeth II is beginning a two-day visit to Northern Ireland celebrating the British territory's hard-won peace in a town that suffered one of the IRA's worst massacres.
The British monarch's planned meeting Wednesday with former Irish Republican Army commander Martin McGuinness comes the day after her visit to Enniskillen, where a no-warning IRA bomb in 1987 killed 11 Protestant civilians and wounded 63 others as they commemorated British dead from the two world wars.
The queen is expected to meet survivors and relatives of the dead alongside religious services in Enniskillen's neighboring Protestant and Catholic cathedrals.
Worldwide revulsion at the Enniskillen massacre spurred McGuinness and other IRA chiefs to begin sounding out peace terms with the British. That quarter-century journey is to end with a Belfast handshake.
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