On 11/27/08, Michael Everson <everson(a)evertype.com> wrote:
On 27 Nov 2008, at 01:51, Ray Saintonge wrote:
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.
We haven't proposed that. We proposed "Ireland (state)".
I come at it from the opposite perspective. To have the article on the
26-county Republic at [[Ireland (state)]] would be to gloss over the fact
that it is an incomplete Republic.
--
Sam Blacketer