[WikiEN-l] [Foundation-l] Trouble in Ireland

[Ray Saintonge]

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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