known by that term it should be said by the same british people who have well robbed occupied brutalised and oppressed the irish people for centuries the same people who also called the irish barbarians savages and much more and furthermore the british as they are commonly known today didn't even exist until at best the seventeenth century which coincidentally is when the term british isles first entered the english language this term is zealous jingoistic nomenclature if ever there was one just another part of the myth making exercises underpinning the creation of the british state and there i was thinking the british were above such crass displays of nationalist tribalism