What do the Irish call'Ireland'

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: alison
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 05:52 AM

"Home"

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: Coyote Breath
Date: 20 Oct 02 - 02:01 AM

I liked the expression: "the wee six" referring to NI. In San Francisco there is a bar (pub) called "Irelands 32" I'm not sure if that was declaritive or possesive.

But of all, "home" sounds best. For some of us here, it was where our ancestors came from, far back enough to include Ulstermen who wept for Ireland's captivity and fought and died for her freedom. For some others, recently enough to have won the right to stay here in long, drawn-out, court battles.

Home sounds best.

CB

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 08:43 PM

Top o'the morning, one an'all! Four green fields?

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: The Pooka
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 08:27 PM

"Home" is the best, for anyone anywhere.

Diesel - re hoping I jest: with spellings & expressions in American-English (UK & US being "two peoples divided by a common language"), Yes, all the time, too much. But with Irish names, place-names, etc. -- and *especially* with attempts at the Irish language which I do not have: No, not deliberately. It's ignorance, not parody. No offense meant; please feel free to correct.

- Pookey Man

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: diesel
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 03:46 PM

Home !

And cold it is tonight !

And Pookey - I hope you jest with your spellings ??

Diesel

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: Shankhillboy
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 03:34 PM

Same as Belfast if all Irishmen are true to themselves ,thats what they call it "home"

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: belfast
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 02:54 PM

The title of the thread gives the answer. We call it "Ireland". Mind you, when I have the misfortune to be travelling in foreign parts I simply call it "home".

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: The Pooka
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:21 PM

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...)

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: belfast
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 12:15 PM

This little corner gets The Six Counties, The North, Northern Ireland ( the "official" title, I believe), Ulster (irritating because of its inaccuracy), British-occupied Ireland, this sectarian statelet, our wee province and on and on.

I'll let someone else list the possibilities for the South.

As for the island as a whole try Joyce, "The old sow who eats her own farrow". Or….

"This lovely land that always sent
Its writers and artists to banishment
And in a spirit of Irish fun
Betrayed her leaders one by one
'Twas Irish humour wet and dry
Flung quicklime into Parnell's eye

Subject: RE: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: Snuffy
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 11:34 AM

the ould sod

Subject: What do the Irish call'Ireland'
From: Big Tim
Date: 19 Oct 02 - 11:30 AM

As a complement to the current thread, "What do the Irish call the 'British Isles'" I wondered about his one.

Ireland, Republic of Ireland,Eire, 26 Counties, Summatelse?