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But the success of the peace process has greatly eased tensions and a visit by the monarch is seen by many as cementing a closer relationship.

Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, stressed his party was still against the Royal visit and would host celebrations of republicanism in each city the Queen visits. He described the visit as premature and insensitive.

Anti-war campaigners and left-wing republican group Eirigi, which has one council seat, are planning a series of protests.

The start of the visit falls on the anniversary of atrocities which claimed the greatest loss of life in a single day of the Troubles. Thirty-four men, women and children, including an unborn baby, were killed in no-warning explosions in Dublin and Monaghan on May 17, 1974.

The victims' families and survivors of a series of bombs have written an open letter to the Queen to mark her arrival in Ireland and will hold their annual wreath-laying ceremony a few hundred yards from where the Queen will commemorate Irish rebels in the Garden of Remembrance.

Justice For The Forgotten has appealed to the monarch to urge Mr Cameron to open secret files which were withheld by the British Government during an inquiry.

An Army spokesman said: "An Army bomb disposal team made safe a viable improvised explosive device overnight in Maynooth, Co Kildare."