Again I can see why an Irish person might object to the term and mistakenly view it as it was the British Isles because they belonged to Britain but it wasn't! The term is simply the geographic name for the island group whatever the political situation. Originally it was the Britannic or Pretanike Islands (spelling) going all the way back to pre-Roman invasion times. So British Isles was simply the modern version of that. At that time the larger island itself was called Albion. The name Britain only became more specifically associated with the larger island because the Roman province of Britannia covered a large chunk of the larger island. I mean I support Scottish independence but I don't think should that happen we'd then want the geographic term for larger island to be changed just because the of the political situation.