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|author = Kerr, Áine

|title = Folens to wipe 'British Isles' off the map in new atlas

|org = The Irish Times

|url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/folens-to-wipe-british-isles-off-the-map-in-new-atlas-1.1009971

|date = 2 October 2006

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| author2 = Clarke, Donald

| title2 = Saoirse Ronan being claimed by the UK not 'a compliment'

| org2 = The Irish Times

| url2 = http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/donald-clarke-saoirse-ronan-being-claimed-by-the-uk-not-a-compliment-1.2490426

| date2 = 9 January 2016

| quote2 = Suchet followed these remarks with a patronising tweet featuring a link to the Wikipedia article on the British Isles. We do not know if he read as far as the following paragraph: 'The term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British.'

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