Irish mercenaries, unionist coat trailers and the Bard of Dunclug

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British),

Not sure where you picked up that I said that one part of the island of Ireland was part of a different island?

The Irish Sea divides one from the other, not me. Britons are from Britain, no one from anywhere else.

[ardmhachaabu]

I think you need serious help

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

I think you need serious help

The British Army needs you... NOW!

[ardmhachaabu]

You are on another planet, probably one inhabited by leprechauns

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

You are on another planet, probably one inhabited by leprechauns

That's right whacky, you're just so right.

[ardmhachaabu]

You are on another planet, probably one inhabited by leprechauns

That's right whacky, you're just so right.

Jee-zus Christ!  You need serious help.

[ONeill]

Be careful FoS. He might report you. Poor HS went that way for engaging with this fellow.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Thanks Shane, I'd better not say too much about that incredibly feeble and fawningly fetid fag of a yoke again then.

[Baile an tuaigh]

Ah sure what a bout an old song to lighten the mood. Everyone now, come on Chris


The Sea Around Us

They say that the lakes of Killarney are fair
No stream like the Liffey could ever compare
If it's water you want you'll find nothing more rare
Than the stuff they make down by the ocean

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between Britain and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water

Tom Moore made his waters made fame and renown
A great lover of anything dressed in a crown
In brandy the bandy old Saxon he'd drown
But throw ne'er a one into the ocean

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between Britain and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by wate

The Scots have their whisky, the Welsh have their speech
And their poets are paid about tenpence a week
Provided no hard words on Britain they speak
Oh Lord! What a price for devotion

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between Britain and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by wate

The Danes came to Ireland with nothing to do
But dream of the plundered old Irish they slew
Yeh will in your Viking, said Brian Boru
And he threw them back into the ocean

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between Britain and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water

Two foreign old monarchs in battle did join
Each wanting each head on the back of a coin
If the Irish had sense they'd drowned both in the Boyne
And partition throw into the ocean

The sea, oh the sea is the gradh geal mo croide
Long may it stay between Britain and me
It's a sure guarantee that some hour we'll be free
Oh thank God we're surrounded by water

[Chrisowc]

That oul guff would bring a tear to the eye.

[Maguire01]

'Indeed, Belfast wasn't even the first Welcome Home Parade organised for the RIR in a British town that same week:'

Belfast isn't in Britain, thesaurus boy

Thanks for the geography lesson. 

It's a British City though.

Only fools think that a part of one island (Ireland, and Irish) can be classified as being of a different island (Britain, and British),

Not sure where you picked up that I said that one part of the island of Ireland was part of a different island?

The Irish Sea divides one from the other, not me. Britons are from Britain, no one from anywhere else.

Great Britan is the island of England, Scotland and Wales, but anywhere in the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is 'officially' British.
Hence whilst NI isn't in Great Britain, it is still officially 'British', consistent with the people of NI being able to hold a 'British' passport and be 'British' citizens, if they so wish.

[saffron sam2]

Someone told me that there were more children injured with fireworks this week, than RIRers injured during their last tour of duty to Afghanistan. Could this be true?

[Main Street]

Great Britan is the island of England, Scotland and Wales, but anywhere in the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is 'officially' British.
Hence whilst NI isn't in Great Britain, it is still officially 'British', consistent with the people of NI being able to hold a 'British' passport and be 'British' citizens, if they so wish.

Where did you get that from?
Being an automatic British National does not make it officially British.
The entitlement to British Citizenry is because of NI being a part of the UK.
For it to be a British city, Belfast would have to be in Britain, just like Cardiff

Belfast is a city in that part of ireland which is in the UK

[Maguire01]

Well my rationale was that Great Britain and Britain aren't necessarily the same thing. The British Empire wasn't confined to GB and those countries and cities within the Empire were regarded as 'British', were they not?

[bennydorano]

The 'Great' in GB is a French assignation AFAIK, to distinguish it from Brittany the French called Britain Grande Bretagne.