‘Geopolitical lesson’

Dear Editor:

I noticed in a back issue that you reported on bands from “Southern Ireland.”

While there is a province of the UK called “Northern Ireland,” there is no place called “Southern Ireland.”

The 1937 constitution renamed the “Southern Ireland” state “Ireland.” In 1949, it explicitly became a republic under the terms of the Republic of Ireland Act 1948 when it left the British Commonwealth.

The bands in question were from County Donegal which is not even in the geographic south of Ireland, but is up in the northwest corner.

Here ends the geopolitical lesson for the day.

Robert Moore, Guelph