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The '''"Atlantic Isles"''' is a loose term for groupings of islands within the [[Atlantic Ocean]]. For example:
The '''"Atlantic Isles"''' is an alternative name for the [[British Isles]].

* [[Barbados]], the [[Azores]], the [[Canary Islands]] and [[Madeira]] <ref>http://www.fun2cruz.com/d/4205042_48217.htm</ref><ref>http://www.abouttenerife.com/tenerife/legend5.asp</ref>
* Islands off the coast of [[Florida]] <ref>http://sibfl.net/news_archive/082007_news/summer_summary.asp</ref>
* Islands off the coast of [[Scotland]] <ref>www.scottishislands.org.uk/newsletters/june-2005.doc</ref><ref>http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/pdffilesstore/ppr2005</ref>
* [[Greenland]], [[Iceland]] and [[Loften]] <ref>http://www.travour.com/cruises/destinations/cruises-to-atlantic-isles.html</ref>
* The [[British Isles]] plus [[Iceland]] <ref>[http://www.europarc-ai.org/]</ref>
* An alternative name for the [[British Isles]].




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[[Isidore of Seville]]'s Etymology, written in the early seventh century and one of the most used textbooks in Europe throughout the Middle Ages,<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article on Isidore]</ref> similarly lists Britain (Britannia), Ireland (called Scotia or Hibernia), Thule, and many other islands simply as "islands" or "islands of the Ocean" and uses no collective term.
[[Isidore of Seville]]'s Etymology, written in the early seventh century and one of the most used textbooks in Europe throughout the Middle Ages,<ref>[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08186a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia article on Isidore]</ref> similarly lists Britain (Britannia), Ireland (called Scotia or Hibernia), Thule, and many other islands simply as "islands" or "islands of the Ocean" and uses no collective term.


The term "Atlantic Isles" was coined due to the fact that the ocean of the aforementioned "islands of the ocean" in question is today called the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], and so the Atlantic Isles name was born (Islands as outlined in the map shown). {{cn}}
The term "Atlantic Isles" was coined due to the fact that the ocean of the aforementioned "islands of the ocean" in question is today called the [[Atlantic Ocean|Atlantic]], and so the Atlantic Isles name was born (Islands as outlined in the map shown).
The emergence of the [[British Empire]] and the subsequent military occupation of the Island of Ireland, lead to the creation of a seventeenth century term "British Isles" as the description of Great Britain, Ireland and the surrounding islands.{{cn}}
The emergence of the [[British Empire]] and the subsequent military occupation of the Island of Ireland, lead to the creation of a seventeenth century term "British Isles" as the description of Great Britain, Ireland and the surrounding islands.{{cn}}


However this term was deemed offensive by some Irish people<ref>"In an attempt to coin a term that avoided the 'British Isles' - a term often offensive to Irish sensibilities - Pocock suggested a neutral geographical term for the collection of islands located off the northwest coast of continental Europe which included Britain and Ireland: the Atlantic archipelago..." Lambert, Peter; Phillipp Schofield (2004). Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, p. 217.</ref> which has lead to the resurgence of the use of the Atlantic Isles and other related terms such as "Great Britain and Ireland", "The British Isles and Ireland", "Britain and Ireland", and the deliberately vague "these isles", "IONA" (Islands of the North Atlantic), "The Anglo-Celtic Isles", etc. all of which are in use to some extent.
However this term was deemed offensive by Irish people<ref>"In an attempt to coin a term that avoided the 'British Isles' - a term often offensive to Irish sensibilities - Pocock suggested a neutral geographical term for the collection of islands located off the northwest coast of continental Europe which included Britain and Ireland: the Atlantic archipelago..." Lambert, Peter; Phillipp Schofield (2004). Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, p. 217.</ref> which has lead to the resurgence of the use of the Atlantic Isles and other related terms such as "Great Britain and Ireland", "The British Isles and Ireland", "Britain and Ireland", and the deliberately vague "these isles", "IONA" (Islands of the North Atlantic), "The Anglo-Celtic Isles", etc. all of which are in use to some extent.


== Current Usage ==
== Current Usage ==

Revision as of 12:04, 5 September 2007

The Atlantic Isles
Location of Atlantic Isles
Population
• Estimate
68.5 million

The "Atlantic Isles" is an alternative name for the British Isles.


Origins of the term

The Atlantic Isles [1].[2] [3] term today is derived from Oceani Insulae, which classical geographers and also later native sources in the post-Roman period used to refer to the Islands of Ireland at the time called "Hibernia" and Great Britain called "Britannia" also, between about the fifth and eleventh centuries, "Scotia". The Orkneys ("Orcades") and Isle of Man were also mentioned in descriptions of the islands.

Examples of the progenitor term are described in the following passage. In classical geography. the world of the Mediterranean was thought to be surrounded by a fast flowing river, personified as the Titan Oceanus. As a result, islands off the north and west shores of continental Europe were termed (in Latin) the Oceani Insulae or Islands of the Ocean. For example, in AD 43 various islands, including Ireland, Great Britain, and Thule, were described as "Septemtrionalis Oceani Insulae", meaning Islands of the Northern Ocean, by Pomponius Mela, one of the earliest Roman geographers.[4]

Isidore of Seville's Etymology, written in the early seventh century and one of the most used textbooks in Europe throughout the Middle Ages,[5] similarly lists Britain (Britannia), Ireland (called Scotia or Hibernia), Thule, and many other islands simply as "islands" or "islands of the Ocean" and uses no collective term.

The term "Atlantic Isles" was coined due to the fact that the ocean of the aforementioned "islands of the ocean" in question is today called the Atlantic, and so the Atlantic Isles name was born (Islands as outlined in the map shown). The emergence of the British Empire and the subsequent military occupation of the Island of Ireland, lead to the creation of a seventeenth century term "British Isles" as the description of Great Britain, Ireland and the surrounding islands.[citation needed]

However this term was deemed offensive by Irish people[6] which has lead to the resurgence of the use of the Atlantic Isles and other related terms such as "Great Britain and Ireland", "The British Isles and Ireland", "Britain and Ireland", and the deliberately vague "these isles", "IONA" (Islands of the North Atlantic), "The Anglo-Celtic Isles", etc. all of which are in use to some extent.

Current Usage

The present day British-Irish Council created in 1998 in line with its intended purpose to "promote the harmonious and mutually beneficial development of the totality of relationships among the peoples of these islands" has suggested the term Atlantic Isles and its synonym the "Atlantic Archipelago"[7][8]

The "Atlantic Isles" term is also in prominent use with authors and poets of today such as Diarmaid MacCulloch, [9] Henriques H.S.QCite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). when discussing relevent historical occurances common to all the islands in question, a stand out example being the reformation.

It has been criticized on the grounds of its accuracy, since a literal interpretation of the term "Atlantic Isles" could refer to all islands in the Atlantic Ocean. It and "Atlantic Archipelago" have been used particularly in the context of the Northern Irish "peace process", during the negotiation of the Belfast Agreement[citation needed], as a neutral name for the proposed council.

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] "Rebranding the kingdom: Today a new body meets for the first time. Behind it lies a new constitutional notion - the Atlantic Isles"
  2. ^ [2] "Heal a chance to provide a detailed and well-controlled picture of the whole archipelago of islands which used to be known as the British Isles: this is not just an account of the English Reformation with a few grudging appendices on the other two kingdoms of the islands, but a proper consideration of the wider picture, particularly alert to interactions and fruitful comparisons. The "Atlantic Isles" dimension is essential to understanding the dramatic changes of the sixteenth century. Scotland provides a Reformation in purer and more clearly articulated form than England, while Ireland affords the unique spectacle in Europe of a Counter-Reformation coming to fruition despite the efforts of the central government"
  3. ^ [3]"It appears that Jews lived in the Atlantic Isles since the Saxon period"
  4. ^ POMPONII MELAE DE SITU ORBIS
  5. ^ Catholic Encyclopedia article on Isidore
  6. ^ "In an attempt to coin a term that avoided the 'British Isles' - a term often offensive to Irish sensibilities - Pocock suggested a neutral geographical term for the collection of islands located off the northwest coast of continental Europe which included Britain and Ireland: the Atlantic archipelago..." Lambert, Peter; Phillipp Schofield (2004). Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, p. 217.
  7. ^ In an attempt to coin a term that avoided the 'British Isles' - a term often offensive to Irish sensibilities - Pocock suggested a neutral geographical term for the collection of islands located off the northwest coast of continental Europe which included Britain and Ireland: the Atlantic archipelago..." Lambert, Peter; Phillipp Schofield (2004). Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, p. 217. in its work to date.
  8. ^ "In an attempt to coin a term that avoided the 'British Isles' - a term often offensive to Irish sensibilities - Pocock suggested a neutral geographical term for the collection of islands located off the northwest coast of continental Europe which included Britain and Ireland: the Atlantic archipelago..." Lambert, Peter; Phillipp Schofield (2004). Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline. New York: Routledge, p. 217.
  9. ^ [4]"Heal a chance to provide a detailed and well-controlled picture of the whole archipelago of islands which used to be known as the British Isles: this is not just an account of the English Reformation with a few grudging appendices on the other two kingdoms of the islands, but a proper consideration of the wider picture, particularly alert to interactions and fruitful comparisons. The "Atlantic Isles" dimension is essential to understanding the dramatic changes of the sixteenth century. Scotland provides a Reformation in purer and more clearly articulated form than England, while Ireland affords the unique spectacle in Europe of a Counter-Reformation coming to fruition despite the efforts of the central government"

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References

  • MacCulloch, Diarmaid (2003), Reformation in Britain and Ireland (revised ed.), Oxford and New York: H-Albion
  • H.S.Q., Henriques (2005), The Return of the Jews to England (reprinted ed.), London: The Lawbook Exchange, ISBN 1-58477-667-6
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