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   OpenCage (opencage@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 21:25:50 JST OpenCage

   Irish 🇮🇪 #geoweirdness, secrets strange and bold,
   across the isle, an odd tale to be told.
   Cork to Donegal,
   we'll unveil it all -
   in this thread, the story will unfold.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 21:25:46 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     @opencage

     So, in fact, there isn't really a border that could be policed. Statistically, people can cross every 1.66 kilometers.

     Just like the Hadrian's Wall of old in Britain, there is one country with the remnants of an archaic border...

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     OpenCage (opencage@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 21:25:48 JST OpenCage

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     3. Ireland 🇮🇪 is part of the EU 🇪🇺, and the land border and freedom of movement with the UK 🇬🇧 proved to be a tricky point to resolve in Brexit negotiations.

     The "border" itself is 499km long with about 300 crossings, often entirely unmarked.

     https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/gallery/border-lines-between-uk-ireland-16678901

     #geoweirdness

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     OpenCage (opencage@en.osm.town)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 21:25:49 JST OpenCage

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     2. First of all, some clarification on terms: Ireland is an island in the north Atlantic.

     The island is divided between the country Ireland 🇮🇪 (Éire in Irish, and
     sometimes referred to as the "Republic of Ireland" or simply "the Republic") and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom 🇬🇧.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Irish_state

     #geoweirdness

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     Lev Petrovitch (levpetrovitch@livellosegreto.it)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 23:33:58 JST Lev Petrovitch

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     • HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

     @HistoPol

     Is even more complicated than that. Back when the border issue was discussed in view of brexit, I remember someone on the bird site saying that the border follows his father backyard fence (can't remember which side was what) and I don't think that is the only case

     @opencage

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 23:44:30 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Lev Petrovitch

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     From a global perspective the partitioning of #Ireland, #Brexit, and the #Crown are all anachronisms, living on borrowed time but to the detriment of the peoples of the islands...

     There is no "splendid isolation" anymore, if there ever was. (#Mercantilism didn't do all that well historically.)
     No islanders are able to go it alone, in particular not in a world of rising sea levels.

     The threatened peoples of the #Pacific see this clearly, and...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Nov-2023 23:46:08 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

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     • Lev Petrovitch

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     ...have united. Only the majority of Brits thought they could go it alone...

     How much more of the (colonial) wealth must be destroyed in order for the people to rebel against such macroeconomically insane policies?

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