On the final day of his tour of both the Republic and the North the royal visited the country's oldest peace and reconciliation centre.
Run by Christians, the Corrymeela Centre played a vital role in bringing together people on all sides of the troubles.
Speaking at the centre, Prince Charles said: "By our shared wounds and scars we can I hope, I pray, share healing and a friendship made all the stronger for the trials it has overcome.
"We have all suffered too much, too many people's loved ones have been killed or maimed.
"Surely it is time, as I said in Sligo two days ago, that we became the subjects of our history and not its prisoners.
"Surely, too, in the roots of Corrymeela, we can discover lessons that can serve as a model to all who strive for peace and reconciliation."
A leader at the centre, Padraig ÓTuama, told Premier the Prince's visit was "extraordinarily important" and that there was "deep hunger" for speeches from the Prince which promoted peace.
He added: "It has been an extraordinary time of public gesture, public gesture of leadership, public gesture of reconciliation but also public gesture of marking bereavement because he himself is a victim of the troubles because his own family was bereaved."
Charles' great uncle Lord Mountbatten was murdered by the IRA in 1978 on a boat off the west coast of Ireland.
Padraig ÓTuama speaking to Premier's Antony Bushfield: