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Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ravenford@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Irish isn’t complicated - we’re a separate island from Britain.

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  • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wrong.

    Northern Ireland is brittish. Hence the cimplicated

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    • ravenford@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      As an Irish person born in the six counties of Ireland the British claim as “Northern Ireland”, I can assure you that although our identity is complex, we have an international treaty (the Good Friday Agreement) between Britain and Ireland which recognises the residents of this part of Ireland have the right to identify as Irish, OR British OR both.

      What’s not in dispute is that Ireland has been partitioned and NI has existed for barely 100 years, and that our accents predate this political divide and are distinctly geographical - people from the island of Ireland have *Irish" accents

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      • Z3k3@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can identify however you wish no treaty changes that. I’m from the other bit of Britain that didn’t want to leave the EU and the same prime minister that worked out the gfa also gave me my own parliament.

        I have my own complex feelings when it comes to my relationship with Britain yet do not identity as British. Those feelings are nowhere near as complex as Ireland.

        You admitted it yourself that was all I stated. Like it or not ni is governed by the same central spot and most of the world regards both island as the British Isles even though the roi does not.

        So to get back to the only thing to stated.

        It’s complicated

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