Why Ireland is not a British isle
While the term “British Isles” has long annoyed many Irish people when it's applied to Ireland, at time of writing it seems particularly important to clarify that Ireland is not a British isle.
And I know that many people are already thinking
"Yes it is. It always has been. It's a purely geographical term."?
In case you're busy...the TL:DR of the article is this:
No. It's not. And no, it hasn't. And no, it's not.
What you think you know….it's wrong.
The rest of this article is over on Medium.com
After adding points to that one to try to explain to people "No. What you thought is actually just wrong...really" I don't want to update this page to match. And there'll probably be more such occasions.
The article is free to read on Medium. It might require social sign-on.
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3 个月Just a funny one.
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3 个月I added a section at the bottom - as an Appendix. "Common stupid counter arguments". ??
Semi Retired at None
3 个月There’s so much anger?out there. (I myself have been inexplicably angrier over the last couple of years and sometimes consider that I may someday leave this world that way.) The human race seems to desperately need a unifying fate-defining common cause. Perhaps a vicious extraterrestrial attack is what we collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves. ? Collectively and maybe even individually, we humans seem hopelessly prone to our politics of scale and differences. Still, from within ourselves we, as individuals, can resist flawed yet normalized human/societal nature thus behavior. In the meantime, people should avoid believing, let alone claiming, that they are not capable of committing an atrocity, even if relentlessly pushed. Contrary to what is claimed or felt by many of us, deep down there’s a potential monster in each of us that, under the just-right circumstances, can be unleashed — and maybe even more so when convinced that God’s on our/my side.
Retired Principal Teacher St Columba's NS
3 个月Well said Hugh!
Head of Integrated Solutions, Vital EV
3 个月I don’t know a single English person who doesn’t refer to Ireland as Ireland. Sadly you are totally seperate from us because and despite of us - and Brexit hasn’t helped either. These loons, at least in the UK are thankfully a minority - although they sometimes don’t feel that way on social media