Talk:Anglo-Irish relations
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[edit] Name change proposal
I propose that this article be renamed. The terms "Anglo" suggests specifically English (as in Anglo-Saxon), or the English language when in fact there are more national identities in the United Kingdom (Northern/Irish, Scottish, Welsh etc) than just English. The national description of these peoples is "British".
Further to this, the term "Irish" is ambiguous, as it describes both a nationality (a country) and an ethnicity - the two aren't necessarily the same, though there is a large overlap. --Mal 01:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- In theory, I agree entirely. There is a proposal (see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Foreign relations#Bilateral relations) to codify the styles of these pages permanently. I suggest that you support adopting the names of countries and ordering by short name (in this case 'Republic of Ireland-United Kingdom relations).
- In this case, even if that is not accepted, I suggest that it be moved to 'British-Irish relations', per your first point and per the category (that I created last year) titled 'British-Irish relations'. Bastin 15:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- This was right however using 'anglo-' to mean British is fairly common practice even if by the definition of anglo=England its not entirely right. By other definitions though the vast majority of Scotland and N.Ireland and well over half of Wales are anglo too.--Him and a dog 17:01, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Ironic?
Ireland is represented by orange and the UK is represented by green. That made me smile. No rebuttle required.--Play Brian Moore 19:18, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
