To seriously recommend Ireland

The person who I was referring to said Belfast isn't in Ireland. That's like someone saying Pyongyang isn't in 'Korea'.

I am going to guess that you were neither born nor raised on any part of the island. I merely surmising that you have no first hand experience of the deeply ingrained cultural idenities at play in the issue of being from the North of Ireland, or you are really playing devil's advocate by using this comparison. Maybe you're an Ulster loyalist? Northern Ireland is in Ireland.

Nope.

They're both on the Korean Peninsula, and the fact that there's a border there is due to conflicting imperialists, not due to any innate differences in language or culture.

Obviously, cultural and economic development since the division of the peninsula has been in radically different directions. This doesn't diminish the fact that the two halves are part of an ancient culture that was distinct from neighboring cultures.

Like many borders all over the world that the Conservative Party had a hand in (in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East) the one dividing Ireland is also highly artificial.

? Wtf ?

Too hilly to build on?

You know why the Highlands are so empty and picturesque, right?

Never been would love to go

Just curious if you think South Korea and North Korea is the same country?

You know what she means. The country of Ireland. Northern Ireland isn't part of Ireland the country. There is a border. Northern Ireland is part of the UK with the pound, the NHS, different social services, different leaders, a different history, different politics, different laws etc. They aren't one and the same no matter how many people might want them to be. Correcting people wrongly because you very much want them to be one and the same still doesn't make it so.

Of course its Ireland!! Northern IRELAND.

100%

And I get irked by non Irish people telling me I am not from Ireland. Northern Ireland is a very specific type of Irishness, as you said, but Irish all the same.

Did you live in Ireland and was this your experience in your day to day life here?

Worked for an Irish company and sexual harassment was rampant and brushed under the carpet. OP
sees to live in some fantasy world

many of us believe it is Ireland. The clue is in its name. Northern ‘Ireland’

And I think this is amplified for those living in border areas who are spending as much time in the south as in the North. Both are home.

Yeah I certainly don't see myself as British. Northern Irish maybe in that we have a very specific shared legacy in trauma in the North but I still see it as the North of Ireland. I certainly don't feel any connection to the English for example.

To expand: the outlook and perspective on the world is totally different IMO. The thinking is not the same. Im doing some family history and within living memory, if you played rugby as opposed to the Gaelic sports, you would not be allowed to play Gaelic sports in the future. And the Irish hate being tacked on to the British (especially the English 😂).

Yeah, you’re kind of right. But the people see themselves as completely different to the British culturally. They see themselves as European, with more in common with say the Spanish than the English.

Isn't Ireland just like Britain but with a different accent, more beer and Taytos instead of Walkers crisps?
Its not like going to Japan or Portugal

Well aren't you lucky no one has said anything nasty like that about your dad. Honestly, some of these posters...and I'm the unintelligent one 🙄

No, I am from Northern Ireland and absolutely consider myself Irish, as being from Ireland; I was born on the island of Ireland and have an Irish passport. I live abroad but my official nationality on all of my documents is 'Irish'. It wouldn't cross my mind that I am anything other than Irish, as much as I don't rate the place much.

Yes, MIL-to-be I should have said.
Surprised that’s the only thing you took from my post 😅

Yep absolutely a WHOLE country and all we do is try desperately to cause trouble. Sure what else would we be doing with ourselves like.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest.