Great Britain is the name of the largest island, hence ‘the united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Island’.
If Irish is a separate ethnicity as it has a state but welsh is not despite sharing a common cultural history and being subject to much of the same processes of assimilation then the definition becomes tautological.
Great Britain is the name of the largest island, hence ‘the united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Island’.
If Irish is a separate ethnicity as it has a state but welsh is not despite sharing a common cultural history and being subject to much of the same processes of assimilation then the definition becomes tautological.