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Posted By: GUEST,JTT
16-Oct-02 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: What do the Irish call the British Isles
Subject: RE: BS: What do the Irish call the British Isles

I think the *correct* geographical term is something like the "North Atlantic Islands".

What Irish people call them depends on political orientation. Unionists and southern West Brits call them the British Isles; republicans and liberals both tend to say "these islands".