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What if Ireland had not been neutral during WW2?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 28,050 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    The name of the state, in the English language, is "Ireland" and the associated adjective is "Irish", and both of these are used both officially and in common speech. And this usage conforms to the way we speak of all other countries when speaking in English. Indeed, it's the usage observed in the title of this thread. A thread about Irish neutrality in WW2 is not a context in which any confusion with the entire island of Ireland is likely to arise.

    So I'm puzzled, frankly, as to why you prefer not to. The reasons you offer don't really account for it; other Irish people who live in Ireland and type on keyboards and value accuracy and etc, etc, use "Ireland" and "Irish".

    I do note that using "Éire" when speaking English is something mainly done by British people, and ineed in particular by the kind of British people who think there might be some genuine question about whether independent Ireland has the legal or moral right to make and act on its own decisions about neutrality. So your decision to use it in this context might create - entirely inadvertently - altogether the wrong impression.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    I never said you did 'post anything anti-British', you however did accuse me of 'continually expressing anti Irish sentiments' in #145.

    You also asked me why I use 'Éire', although you omitted the fada over the 'E'.

    Why did you ask?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,142 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Oh god, Ireland/Eire/Eire with a fada whatever, we know what you mean. Can we give over the nomenclature p*ssing contest and move on?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Agree. I've asked what the reason for the questions about it are and I'm still waiting for an answer. Maybe if I get an answer(s) we can 'move on'.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,853 ✭✭✭rock22


    T

    To be honest, I fear this thread in heading in a direction that is far removed from a hypothetical history discussion so i am bowing out now.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭Cyclingtourist


    Before you go maybe you'll answer my question about your interest in my use of 'Éire'.



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