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Slugger O'Toole: Ireland: barely visible from corporate France?
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Ireland: barely visible from corporate France?
Years ago (1980 to be precise) a Czech student I met fleetingly on a waterbus in Venice asked me where I was from. The single word answer "Belfast" only seemed to puzzle him. After trying Northern Ireland and then Ireland I asked him if he knew where Britain was. He said yes. So I explained that Ireland was the next piece of land to it's west. "Ah" he said, "America!" The whole island, north and south, had no substance in his (admittedly Cold War) world view. It seems that Seamus Martin in today's Irishman's diary has encountered similar problems in corporate France where the train bringing the news of partition in 1922 is overdue (subs needed):
...if you want to book a hotel through SNCF over the web . Everything goes well until they ask you the address to which your credit card bills are sent. You insert your house number, your street name and the name of your city and then you are are asked to choose from a list of countries. This list includes Antarctica, the Faeroe Islands, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Kiribati and Papua-New Guinea. As far as I could make out from my not unlimited knowledge of geography, the only countries missing from the list were the mythical "Bongo-Bongoland" that Tory MP Alan Clarke made infamous - and, of course, Ireland.
The response he got when he complained was less than sympathetic:
I rang SNCF, who informed me that Ireland was p"
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