How Ireland fetishises history

How Ireland fetishises history

Named after a particularly excruciating form of punishment meted out by the IRA, the Irish rap group Kneecap come from Belfast but not from the British Isles. The archipelago on which they live contains a sizeable chunk of non-British territory known as the Republic of Ireland, meaning there’s no accurate name for the group of islands as a whole. To complicate matters even further, some Irish Republicans reserve the phrase “The Republic of Irelan