There is no Southern Ireland

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So sick of hearing people say say Southern Ireland when referring to anywhere outside of Northern Ireland. Any place outside of Northern is the Republic of Ireland. We do not have southern Ireland..

Well my dad always says he was from Southern Ireland he's fromi n .skibereen ,which is in cork so very southern as a child I though t he said sudden ,Ireland though 🤔

I agree OP it drives me mad.

You could say the same about pretty much every other post on here.

Agree op. It's very annoying.

My grandparents, and Irish relatives, just said/say Ireland.

There’s always one….

in how many threads have you posted this inane comment?

You are right, OP. It happens a lot.

I agree.

I say I am from the South of Ireland as in the bottom part of the country (Cork) but when asked where I am from initially, I say Ireland.

I know loads of Irish people and lots of people have told me they are off to southern Ireland usually for the summer to visit family for 3 weeks. Quite jealous.

I've never heard anyone say Southern Ireland and I have family in Kildare. Usually people just say (to me anyway) Northern Ireland or Ireland (no South or Republic).

Actually normally I prefer to just call it Ireland rather than ROI but years ago it also bothered me then some years back I met and fell in love with an NI bloke and sure it does not matter a hoot now. I am so used to being referred to as Southern at this point that I have given up saying 'Oh no, I am not from Cork' and I feel like I sounded quite bratty saying it years ago now too being honest. To be clear we both live in Ireland, I am from Ireland and he is from Northern Ireland but honestly worse things going on that me being referred to as a southerner. Technically I am from the East also but life is too short.

This sums it up. All of it is loaded.

Thank you!!!!!

We are just ireland

The north are Northern Ireland down here…

if Pps dad said he was from Southern Ireland it was due to where he was living then; no one from ireland living in ireland says Southern Ireland.

I always say I'm from Ireland, never the Republic of Ireland but the amount of people, usually English who say "oh she's from southern Ireland ". No Irish person ever says I'm from southern Ireland.

Feck all Irish people say 'top of the mornin to ye' either but we let them away with that!

I lived outside the UK for years. Almost no one knew the UK, GB, England, NI, Wales, Scotland definitions, let alone the politics behind it. People fail maps.

My late nan was from Eire and often referred to it as the Free State. Anyone else of a certain vintage do the same?

The free state is Eire

@TheThingIsYeah Eire is actually a slur so nobody uses it here anymore.

Lighten up. People in Ireland say it too.

I go back and forth on this one. It irritates me, but then I live in NI and everyone here refers to "the South", including Donegal, which doesn't bother me at all. But never Southern Ireland.

I say Ireland and Northern Ireland, but then my Northern Irish husband and in-laws don't love that Ireland doesn't necessarily include the six counties in that usage and I understand that even though I persist as it's important to me that ROI's independence is a matter of fact (I'm from Dublin).

It's tricky and subtle.

In terms of people from t'other island, if they know ROI isn't part of the UK and that NI is, I'll take it as the bar is very very low.

To be fair the English get shit like that too. The "bo oh of wa'ah" (bottle of water) that American Tik Tokers think we all say. Like everyone in the UK has the same accent. Or any accent like that really.

A slur where?