Britain’s Prince Charles and his wife Camilla will visit Galway and Sligo during their upcoming visit to the Republic and Northern Ireland later this month.
The couple will attend an event at NUI Galway on 19 May after which Prince Charles will visit the Marine Institute and the Burren.
A private dinner with President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina will also take place.
The Prince and Duchess of Cornwall will travel to Sligo on 20 May, where they will visit the grave of WB Yeats.
They will also visit Mullaghamore where the prince's great-uncle Lord Mountabatten was killed in an IRA bomb attack in 1979.
Prince Charles was in Northern Ireland last year and in 2013.
He has only been south of the border on official visits twice - in 1995 and in 2002.
The Prince met the then president Mary McAleese during his visit in 2002.
This month's visit is being undertaken at the request of the British government.
It will be seen as the next phase of the process started when Queen Elizabeth paid her first State visit to Ireland in 2011 and President Michael D Higgins made what was the first State visit by an Irish President to Britain last year.
