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AnSionnachRua · 2053 days ago · link · · parent · post: I'm Irish and spent a year traveling the US — here are the 17 things that surprised me about day-to-day life
We'd always say Ireland for the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland for the UK part, yeah. But actually, it can be kind of confusing, because Ireland can also be used to refer to the island of Ireland (i.e. both countries, only one of which is in the UK), and then of course you have people in the North who identify as Irish and others who identify as British... So I can understand why people wouldn't know the difference, even if it makes me twitch a bit.