On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:31:13 -0400, Dave Dobbin <[email protected]> wrote:
>When (Northern) Ireland became part of the Union, it became the 'United >Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. A pedant writes: Not quite: the territory now known as Northern Ireland was already part of the Union. So the sentence should read "When Saorstát Éireann left the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the UKoGB&I became the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." bjg
