Gerard writes:
“For when a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique” – Alan W Watts.
(Pic2: Ger Ryan)
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Gerard writes:
“For when a man no longer confuses himself with the definition of himself that others have given him, he is at once universal and unique” – Alan W Watts.
(Pic2: Ger Ryan)
It is the longest river in the British Isles though.
So what’s the problem?
Agreed.
It’s not the British Isles, it’s the English Isles. And it’s Cromwell’s Canal not ‘the Shannon’. Silly Paddies and their pixie-headed notions!
Keep up Dave, even the UK govt doesn’t use the term British Isles anymore.
Letting go of silly tribal hatreds doesn’t have to mean giving up on all basic self-respect.
What do you call the islands then?
Best ever contribution to this debate is still Newton Emerson:
http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/a-gifted-ff-solution-to-our-geographical-nomenclature-1.1011656
Thank you.
Pissed Paddy showing his inferiority complex again ?
Nothing to see.Move along.
It was for this. This is what it was for.
Facts.
Scary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles
Wikipedia – facts?
National Geographic, the UK govt, the Irish govt, the Guardian & a host of other geographical organisations don;t use the term because it is an ambiguous (do the Channel Islands which are not part of the geographical archipelago count?), archaic & contentious.
Some gomebeen on Broadsheet. Yep, that’s a better source.
I’m sensing you excelled in English but failed geography…
You didn’t learn the term in an Irish geography class.
Apart from which, it is arguable whether it is a geographical term.
It was coined in the 16th Century as part of an attempt to help justify the Tudor conquests of Ireland.
Island: Old English īegland, from īeg ‘island’ (from a base meaning ‘watery, watered’) + land. The change in the spelling of the first syllable in the 16th century was due to association with the unrelated word isle.
Kinda don’t understand your point. The source of a word is no basis for it’s current day definition.
Maybe we should start using the more politically palpable IONA, Islands of The North Atlantic, term when referring to the British Isles. Also Broadsheet, next time you are considering manufacturing outrage please do a google search.
IONA…?
are Iceland, Shetlands and the Orkeny Islands included in that?
…. http://bfy.tw/1ezN
There is no real need for any term – the UK & Ireland is shorter than the British Isles – and would get the same point across more clearly & less contentiously.
UK & Ireland is not shorter. Five syllables versus three. Stop trying to find offence where there is none.
10 characters versus 12, it is shorter. I can play the pick a parameter on which I choose to judge something game too.
Was it good?
I thought it was long and a bit windy and drifted off at the end. Nice lakes though.
This clickbait might be worth it just for that comment…
I saw that programme on RTE ’bout two years ago & I very much enjoyed it.
Chompsky, you misspelled ‘clickbait’ in the title.
get a life broadsheet
CousinJack just did a little poo in his panties
We could offer to share the name. These islands could be the Irish Isles for the next 400 years, then they can have their turn again, all things being equal and us all not having been swamped by the rising waters of climate change.
If we cant cal it the British Isles then I suppose we will have to stop calling it the Irish Sea.
Who cares about the Irish Sea?
its fierce salty
Both are named from a British perspective. The own the isles and the differentiator for that sea is that it separates Britain from Ireland.
If BS/Gerard believes the advice in the Watts quote, why are they bothered by the definition of Ireland that others have given it? And why do they put said quote in a blog post that is encouraging others to be bothered by same?
The last sentence I wrote there is garbled.
I had a proper ‘was it for this’ moment on friday going to the picnic. I used that one drive yoke on the new phone. The engish accent telling me to take the exit for ‘sill droyched – celbridge’ as i came off the n4 to ‘slih-go’ was nearly as bad as the merry fupn dance it led me on the back roads of kildare.
and yeh, we did a cool gig, ill throw up an oul link soon.
The quote is part of my signature in all my outgoing emails; not sure how it got in there.
I need a telegram sent to the Prussian consulate in Siam, via the british isles!
The area is called the British Isles. No level of pointless uploads will change that. It is a group of islands made up of Great Britain, Ireland and thousands of smaller islands. The sooner you accept this the better.
And Rhodesia will forever be known as Rhodesia in the minds of a few.
That is a country that has changed its name to Zimbabwe. The British Isles has not been changed. That is the name of the archipelago. I’m not making it up.
t.i.n.a.
Longest river in the Home Nations, chaps.