Fair enough. I can live with that. I just wished that when they left, it wasn't preceded by burning the family records in Dublin as I'm having the devil's own job to find out about the Shannon (or any variation!) family in Cork in the early 1800s. I could probably make it easier by shelling out large sums of money but, hey, I'm a cheapskate.
DaveD -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:16 Subject: [canals-list] Re: Waterways Adjournment Debate in Parliament 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 f Great Britain and Northern Ireland'. A pedant writes: Not quite: the territory now known as Northern Ireland was already art of the Union. So the sentence should read "When Saorstát Éireann eft the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the UKoGB&I ecame the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland." bjg ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
