It is different the generally accepted meaning of the word Ireland has changed since the time of CS Lewiss birth Noone would interpret the unexplained word Ireland as part of a nolonger existing country unless they were already familiar with the history and were paying attention to the year when Lewis was born Your suggestion that the word Ireland is used to mean part of the previously existing United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is refuted in the CS Lewis article itself The word Ireland links to an article whose first sentence reads  This article is about the island  The form you prefer chooses elegance over being informative If you revert a Bold edit in future for reasons of contradicting preexisting consensus please see  WP OAS On revert and make reference to the preexisting concensus in the first instance