Steve Summit wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
What's a one-sentence statement of the
compelling reason from each
side, stated from a neutral point of view?
A reader typing in "Ireland" (or an editor linking [[Ireland]])
is almost certainly thinking about the country, not the geological
structure.
It's not just about those two extremes. If I state that certain of
my
ancestors came from Ireland around the time of the famine it is talking
about Ireland as who whole before the disunification of 1922. This is
about more than mere geology. So Ireland as the Republic or the State
or whatever term you choose to use is clearly about what happened in the
part that successfully cast off the shackles of occupation since 1922.
For certain partisans of the "Republic" to assume a monopoly on the
name, Ireland, seems an improper usurpation of the name for personal ends.
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