"katy" wrote
And if the Irish had been smarter, they would have renamed it as
soon as they got rid of British rule.


They *did* rename a heck of a lot of places.

Donal wrote:
Actually, the most important thing was *peace*. The infant Irish government
did not make any efforts to demonstrate their independance.


Also, they wanted to start shooting at each other almost
immediately after the English left.


The British landowners didn't understand that the Irish only wanted peace.
Many of them(the British) sold their land after independance because they
thought that their land would be confiscated. History shows that they sold
cheap.

To this day, the Irish have not tried to exact revenge.


One of the things I admire about the Irish people is that
very few of them seem bitter about the past... and that
seems to have been the case even before the current era of
prosperity.

DSK