You are all now serving a *global* community with your detailed GIS work.
We thank you for your detailed work.
But we historians and genealogists call the homeplace "Ireland." Our
families’ immigration papers mostly list "Ireland" as the country of
origin.
The official name of the United Kingdom appears to be The United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Wikipedia etc.).
Ireland used for both the whole island and the 26 county sovereign state, while
6 counties of the island of Ireland are currently part of
They both are Ireland
There's lots of duplication of places, Louth village, is in Louth county...
If you look at EU documents, with the names of the states, you see
"Ireland" plain and simple vs the "Hellenic Republic"
Only Hungary and Romania also have no qualifier to their official name.
Colm
