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New atlas lets Ireland slip shackles of Britain
The Times (UK) ^
| October 03, 2006
| By David Sharrock
Posted on 10/03/2006 6:49:35 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: Irish_Thatcherite
I like the sound of that,, IT...
But how about the Hyperborean Islands? There's some historical precident from way back when, I believe....
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:54:33 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Hyperborean.. I heard that term before?
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posted on
10/04/2006 1:57:44 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
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posted on
10/04/2006 3:02:42 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
I saw bits and pieces of it.
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posted on
10/04/2006 3:44:48 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: aculeus
Irish, fah!. Bunch of low rent savages. Always sailing across the sea and raiding good Scots lands and carrying off our wimin. We Scots are supposed to sail across the sea and carry off their wimin!
Got to remember, rape the wimin, steal the cattle.
(from a descendant of Border Clan Reivers - IOW, I'm from a long line of horse thieves... and proud of it!)
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posted on
10/04/2006 3:55:16 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Phsstpok
I do like a good Scot wumin! :-P
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posted on
10/04/2006 4:01:04 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
"Anglo-Celtic Isles?"
Inadequate. It misses pre-Celtic Picts, Romans, Saxons, Jutes, and assorted Nordic immigrants to the faire islands.
To: aculeus
John O’Connor, managing director of Folens, said that no final decision had yet been taken as to what would replace the British Isles title in the relevant section ... How about "Them" Islands?
The Islands formerly known as "Part of the British Isles"
They can paint this green and use it as their flag. 
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posted on
10/04/2006 4:42:02 PM PDT
by
Centurion2000
("Be polite and courteous, but have a plan to KILL everybody you meet.")
To: Happygal
BTW...when I hear people talking about the UK as the 'Mainland' drives me a bit dull as well. Those of us who live on continental land masses think it's hilarious to call any island (Australia excepted) the "Mainland".
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posted on
10/04/2006 4:42:06 PM PDT
by
aculeus
To: Irish_Thatcherite
It appears as one of the lands in his fiction cycle, who in turn was connected with H.P. Lovecraft's concepts and was expanded by the other writers who played with the same ideas, especially Clark Ashton Smith.
From Wikipedia: "In Greek maps from the time of Alexander the Great, Hyperborea, shown variously as a peninsula or island, is located beyond France and has a greater latitudinal than longitudinal extent. Apparently Hyperborea is a combined notion of present day Britain and Norway/Sweden."
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posted on
10/04/2006 4:58:49 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
Ah.. so 'Hyperborea' is quite a good suggestion for 'these islands' (a phrase often used by NI politicians).
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:03:30 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: aculeus; Happygal
Those of us who live on continental land masses think it's hilarious to call any island (Australia excepted) the "Mainland". The day will come when Mexican-Americans will start calling Mexico "The Mainland", or something more apt! :-P
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:05:21 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Yep. You can start an Irish movement to rename the region Hyperborea. No political/ethnic overtones, but history is there.
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:06:53 PM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
Didn't the Irish claim neutrality during WWII?
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:07:49 PM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Casting a large net for new, shiny tag lines...)
To: Knitting A Conundrum
It will be a weird, it'll take a while to get used to it!
I bet Sinn Fein/IRA will still object - Ireland will still be associated with Great Britain....
;)
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:09:55 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
How about "Ireland, etc."
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:10:54 PM PDT
by
irishtenor
(We survived Clinton in the 80s... we can survive her even when her husband is gone.)
To: alarm rider
De Valera did... 40,000 Irishmen still joined the Allies!
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:14:25 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: irishtenor
Or: "Ireland and all that."
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:15:20 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|What if I lecture Americans about America?)
To: 2banana
How do they feel about the British Channel? If they show Monty Python and Fawlty Towers on the British Channel,
I'll watch it!
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:19:18 PM PDT
by
wireman
To: Irish_Thatcherite
40,000 out of how many? It would seem to me that Ireland owes England a very large debt.
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posted on
10/04/2006 5:36:50 PM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Casting a large net for new, shiny tag lines...)
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