Northern Ireland 2125?

"America" (referring to the continent of North America or the country the United States) is not an island because it is not surrounded by water on all sides; it shares land borders with Canada and Mexico.

FRANCIEBRADY, YOU ARE WRONG IN CALLING AMERICA AN ISLAND.

The other fact you get wrong : because you think everyone from Ireland is Irish, you think everyone from America is American. Wrong, as any Canadian will tell you if you bump in to them in Montreal or wherever and tell them they are American, they will very quickly correct you. Same as if you go in to a bar in Newtownards and tell everyone born in that town they are Irish and none are British, you will get the same response. Especially in the past 40 or 50 years as the pIRA and republicanism have dirtied the word "irish" a bit, same as they hijacked the Irish flag.

If you ask someone born in the Canaries what nationality they are, or what passport they have, it will more than likely be Spanish. Spain is where they pay their taxes to. Funny how you can deny someone not born on a mainland the nationality of their mainland, the place where pay their taxes to, get social welfare from etc.

Of course you are Irish, you are from and live in Co. Monaghan. Nobody disputes that.

Where you are wrong of course is in insisting everyone born on the island of Ireland is Irish as their nationality. That would be like me trying to tell you that you are British, because you are from the British Isles. If someone is from the UK , pays their taxes to the UK, has a UK passport etc, I am quite happy to agree they are British. No skin of my nose. If they want to identify as Irish and get an Irish passport, even though they were born + pay their taxes in the UK, that is ok too, although it is my taxes not theirs paying for embassies etc abroad should they need assistance when travelling with that passport. So be it.

N.B. Just warning you, do not go in to a bar full of Canadians and insist they are all Americans. Would not end well. Although seeing as you thought America was just an island, they might just think you are a badly educated fool and let you off.

Rubbish. My response is not " something along the lines that irish and british identities are mutually exclusive".. Canadians are from the continent of North America ( not "island of America" as bright FrancisBrady thinks it is!!!! 🤣🤣 ), but you do not call people from Canada "Americans". If you ask them where they are from / what nationality they are they will tell you they are Canadians.

With N.I., yes Ireland is part of the geographic British Isles, but if someone from N.Ireland pays their taxes to the British revenue, is protected by the British armed forces, has a British passport ( call it a United Kingdomer passport if you want, but that's a mouthful ), then it is natural they call themselves British. In the same way someone from Hawaii is American nationality, even though Hawaii is thousands of miles from ( FrancisBradys Island of 🤣:)) America.

Ireland is represented on the Union Jack and on St. Patricks day the Irish Gaurd's regiment of the British army celebrate it etc, but because of what some would perceive to be the sectarian ethic cleansing campaign of the IRISH Republican Army ( "armed struggle" to you and the bearded one), some people in N.I. are less inclined to call themselves Irish. Is is like how the Irish flag was hijacked by the IRA. The Irish flag is now associated with Republicanism - look at the eejit from Keeecap doing it no favours or respect either. You have only yourselves to blame.

The great Paddy Mayne from Newtownards, played rugby for Ireland before he co-founded the SAS during WW2. If someone was in the B.A. now from Newtownards and you were to ask them what passport they had, or what nationality they were, I doubt if they would say Irish. I do not blame them.

Geographically, what have you renamed this group of islands ( Britain , Ireland, Isle of Man etc )as?

A weather system is approaching the ……. isles?

Were you missing in geography class as well as history class , because you thought America was an island? The rest of the world thinks of them geographically as the British isles, you have the arrogance to tell them you want them renamed. OK - what do you rename them as?

It is only geographic.

And care to answer the other points, because you know I am right about nationality.

N.B. Found any Canadians yet, and if you have, have you called them "Americans"? They will not take kindly to that.

lol. You are backtracking again. You called America an island. You call / want to call everyone from Ireland Irish as their nationality. Well you do not call everyone from America "American" as their nationality. Any Canadian will tell you that.

As I explained to you,

Ireland is represented on the Union Jack and on St. Patricks day the Irish Gaurd's regiment of the British army celebrate it etc, but because of what some would perceive to be the sectarian ethic cleansing campaign of the IRISH Republican Army ( "armed struggle" to you and the bearded one), some people in N.I. are less inclined to call themselves Irish. Is is like how the Irish flag was hijacked by the IRA. The Irish flag is now associated with Republicanism - look at the eejit from Keeecap doing it no favours or respect either. You have only yourselves to blame.

The great Paddy Mayne from Newtownards, played rugby for Ireland before he co-founded the SAS during WW2. If someone was in the B.A. now from Newtownards and you were to ask them what passport they had, or what nationality they were, I doubt if they would say Irish. I do not blame them.

Go to a bar in Coalisland Co Tyrone and tell them they are British- they will give U more than a slap in the face-

A British Para soldier was blew up in a IRA bomb in the early 90s and the armed brit army went into a bar in Coalisland to beat the locals up- the locals beat the sh1t out of them and took their machine guns off them

The Para was deported back to England in disgrace and will Never set foot here again-

We won-

If you were posting on boards in 1925 you would have said the same thing about 2025, yet here we are.

The state of Northern Ireland has survived over one hundred years in its current form and there is nothing to suggest it won't survive another century, only the wishful thinking of the deluded.

Again, you are telling people their identity.

There are people living on these islands who refer to them as the British Isles. That is a fact. Some of those people see themselves as British because they are born on one or other of these islands.

There are people living on this island who refer to it as Ireland and do not accept the British Isles as a label. That is a fact. Some of those people see themselves as Irish because they are born on this island.

There are people living on this island who refer to the six northern counties as Northern Ireland, a place apart from Ireland. That is a fact. Some of those people see themselves as Northern Irish because they are born in those six counties.

You and I cannot tell any of these people that they are wrong.

Legally, those people born in Northern Ireland are born British because of the UK Nationality Act. Legally, those people born in Ireland (26 counties) are born Irish because of the Nationality Act.

So if you are born on these islands and you claim only a national identity as British, nobody can say you are wrong.