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Thread #52640   Message #806699
Posted By: The Pooka
19-Oct-02 - 12:21 PM
Thread Name: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
Some us celticmistybrained Irish-*Amurricans*, at least (yankmicks :)(plastic paddys?), can still get away with calling her The Emerald Isle, Hibernia, Caitlin ni Houlihan, the Shan Van Vocht, Erin's Isle (or, Green Shore), et cetera & romantic-so-forth. But, do *real* Irish men and Irish women (Poblacht na hEireann!) use that stuff?? I really dunno. Please tell us.

I like The 32 Counties as suggested above. / Of course there's
"Three-Quarters of A Nation Once Again"; but I guess that was a partisan song/parody back in the *old* Troubles...

Sub-thread - what do the northern unionist Irish call the Republic? (Rome? nonono :)(Sodom and Begorrah? Stop it, now...)