Well, actually by the Dictionary definition it is ...
"n :Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic"
But that's from a dictionary entry formed many years ago. Ireland is no longer British (it never really was - it was British in the same way that Poland was German for a few years).
The definition needs bringing up to date. Try telling the people on the Blasketts that they're in the British Isles and see if you can walk back to your boat :-)
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