Talk:British–Irish Council

message: I have removed the term 'British Isles' from the article and replaced it with the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Ireland. Strand Three of the Agreement makes no reference to the term nor does the official British-Council website. The replacement sentence is more accurate and neutral.Iolar Iontach
I am going to add to the unoffical name of the Council area the term British Isles Council. The only reason that this council's offical name is not the British Isles Council is because of political correctness and many unionists in Northern Ireland use that name to refer to the Council as I do myself. The geographical area the Council represents is the British Isles and that is a FACT. Southern Irish and Irish nationalists have DELIBERATELY refused to understand that British Isles is a GEOGRAPHIC term ONLY and NOT a political one! The British Isles is just the correct name for the archipelago off the north coast of France and its sad because of PC that can't be the councils proper name! YourPTR! 18:12, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Britsh Isles'

message: British-Irish Council may be the official name but it and Council of the Isles are heavily POV biased in favor of Nationalist sentiment. Unfortunately the Catholics have been allowed to run amok and name the Council rather than the majority of the British Isles citizens. It is so sad when PC is allowed to take over and for such a baffling and pathetic cause. All I want to do is add British Isles Council as an UNOFFICIAL name to give this article some balance from a Unionist perspective. Anyone who is not a Irish nationalist considers the Council to be and its proper name should be The British Isles Council. After all, that is the archipelago that the council has been set up to represent but every time I go to make this modest change it is reversed. Catholics have got there way with a innacurate name for the Council and now they wont let us unionists add our unofficial name of what the Councils name should be in our hearts. Where is the justice? YourPTR! 15:13, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At no point in the councils website does it use the term British Isles Council and none of the major broadcasters use this term, and the article is merely a list of the organisations involved how on earth is this biased and POV --Barrytalk 14:23, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased Article in favor of Catholics! 

message: Surely in this article, the need to distinguish between Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is glaringly obvious? Why the phobia about Republic of Ireland - it's a necessary disambiguator in an article relevant to the whole island. Mooretwin (talk) 15:55, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: To avoid repeating everywhere, I'll put a response on your Talk page. --HighKing (talk) 16:00, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet more tedious edit-warring re. Republic of Ireland 

message: Cornwall has been voted in this year as an observer member. All I can find at the moment are news stories about the attempt to become a member. e.g. Bodrugan (talk) 09:22, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornwall 

message: In the section on minority regional languages, scots gaelic is not mentioned. Why? 80,000 speakers, a lot more than ulster scots, and scotland is a country, so why is it not included?>
political bias?it should be  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.78.15.183 (talk) 13:26, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, Scottish Gaelic is clearly there in the listing. Did you perhaps overlook it? Man vyi (talk) 14:08, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Scots Gaelic 

message: This was horribly unclear. The WHOLE POINT of the BIC was to introduce safeguards towards devolution in the UK without causing a battle between Unionists and Nationalists as back in the 1970s when the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland had to take control of the NI Assembly due to the conflict. Therefore it is VERY IMPORTANT to specify that the governments of THE REPUBLIC of Ireland (not just "Ireland", that is a geographical term) are members alongside Westminster Parliament and its three devolved bodies: the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly. The part about Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man was correct.
I see there is a lot of conflict on this talk page with regards to this subject. This isn't even remotely difficult to deduce. It is on the FRONT PAGE of BIC's website: http://www.britishirishcouncil.org/
The text reads as follows; "The Council was created under the Agreement reached in the Multi-Party Negotiations in Belfast in 1998 to promote positive, practical relationships among its Members, which are the British and Irish Governments, the devolved administrations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.76.15 (talk) 21:22, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Introduction

message: A editor has raised the question of removing the ability to pipe link the title of the British Isles template. Currently, on this page, it pipe links as The British Isles - or Great Britain, Ireland & the Isle of Man. The editor would like this ability to be removed.
Discussion is taking place here. --RA (talk) 08:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Isles template 

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message: Cornwall was granted a form of membership within the council as an advisor to the uk for matters about the Cornish language on the British and Irish council under the level 2 devolution deal accepted by the Cornwall council this year, could the page be updated to add Cornwall
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/council-news/council-budgets-and-economy/new-devolution-deal-approved-by-cornwall-council-s-cabinet/ 2A0C:4F41:440D:3700:A048:65FC:8EE8:D7F9 (talk) 08:33, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornwall membership in the British and Irish Council