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 Well, an awful lot of people disagree with you, many if not most of whom are Irish and live in Ireland. There are, additionally, very many sources which refer to ""the British Isles and Ireland"" so it makes one wonder about why certain editors here are so keen to assert that there is no dispute about what constitutes this ""British Isles"" entity (if it can be called that) when there clearly is a great deal of dispute about it.   "