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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;andyscouse, post: 1189792, member: 27100&quot;]The full country title is &quot;The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland&quot;. &#039;Great Britain&#039; refers to England and Scotland, which were untited in the early C18th. Wales was subsumed into England in the C14th, if I recall.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The Proof sets display this name on their packaging:</p><p><img src="http://www.sbcosh.org/images/proof1970.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The <i>Republic of Ireland</i> (Eire) is its own country. Northern Ireland is the six counties in the North East, and forms part of the UK.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, with all the EU nonsense and shenanigans, no European country is its own country any more [according to the Eurocrats in Brussels], sadly ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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