The government and people of Ireland don't recognise the term 'British Isles' as a description of the whole archipelago inclusive of Ireland. Yes there are lots of schools in Cork and the rest of Ireland and they don't teach children archaic colonial names for our home.

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There's no country called southern Ireland. And Ireland didn't become a third world country post-independence, it was one of the poorest parts of Europe for a century before independence. Then the slow recovery began.

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There's no country called 'Southern Ireland'.

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The people and government of Ireland don't recognise the term 'British Isles' as a description of the whole archipelago inclusive of Ireland.

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Well some people in Northern Ireland wouldn't be happy if someone was misnaming the statelet the "north of Ireland". But regardless, Dublin in the east of Ireland. The most northerly point of the island is in what you're calling 'Southern Ireland' etc. Apart from the geographic nonsense of the...

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