:::: Well, Mr. 86.26.245.121, "history"? This is 2008 and your extremist little British state is still occupying part of Ireland. If your family rapist were still occuping one of your family bedrooms in 2008, as a supporter of your family rapist I would like to tell you to just get over it and stop showing 'hatred' to my friend, the rapist and accept what he calls you. Forget history; just accept the control and nomenclature of Mr. Rapist. Ah yes, you've just won the inaugural Edmund Spenser Award for services to English Ideas on Ireland. If any people here have hatred it is British people like you who are claiming Ireland, and the Irish people, to be in some "British Isles" entity which, conveniently enough for you British, is a term your jingoistic culture invented in the seventeenth century. If you really feel so bad about "history", how about giving Ireland, Gibraltar, the Malvinas and all the rest back to us natives? I figured! You want to keep the benefits of history but chastise the natives for not bending over and "forgetting" why their country is still occupied in 2008. Complete coincidence, old bean, that the British name for "this archipelago" is called after the name of the political entity created by the English between 1603 and 1707, and the name of their nationality on all their passports. But of course we are all thick stupid Micks and we wouldn't cop on to such a totally wild coincidence whereby the British nation claims a neighbouring nation to be part of their "British Isles." How dare the neighbouring nation not accept this! Yet another charming British person who refusing to accept that the British Empire is over.