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From: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: VOTE on politics in soc.culture.celtic
Message-ID: <1389@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 20:32:11 GMT
References: <1791@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <2666@sultra.UUCP>
Reply-To: ray@micomvax.UUCP (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd. (TDS - Montreal) St. Laurent QC, Canada
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In article <2666@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>In article <1791@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, Dave Lawrence writes:
>> most likely deluding themselves; the British Isles had so many invaders
>> over the course of time that there is hardly anyone who has 100% lineage
>> from Ireland or Wales or Scotland.  
>
>Hmm.  With all this discussion of 'racist' and 'ethnic' jokes recently, I'm
>surprised to find someone referring to Ireland as part of "the British Isles".
>
>As part of "the Colonies", he should know better.

Shucks, I just love it!  (:-(  Who should know better about what?

Ireland *is* part of the geographic entity known as the British Isles.

Ireland is *not* part of the political entity known as "The United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", or commonly as "Great Britain",
"Britain", "The UK", or totally erroneously as "England"!

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