Meaning of Islands of the North Atlantic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Great Britain, Ireland and surrounding smaller islands; the British and Irish Isles.
   plural, rare
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see islands, North Atlantic.
   plural

Examples

“All of us in the islands of the North Atlantic should recognise new alignments are necessary and "we should be prepared to sacrifice for the new shared future".”

“As the Islands of the North Atlantic were mapped and remapped in the early modern period, as maps were decorated and redecorated, the bodies of Britain's and Ireland's heterogeneous inhabitants were fashioned and refashioned...”

“The continuing presence of Irish volunteers in the British armed forces — and, for over 20 years, as conscripts - serves to underline how relations within 'IONA' - the 'Islands of the North Atlantic' - remain more complex than constitutional niceties appear to dictate.”

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