I scribbled the title for this article about two months ago but I had no idea how to actually approach writing it, or perhaps too many ideas.  I would have to present so many precedents and disclaimers to the reader prior to presenting my utterly preposterous argument, in order not to be misunderstood, that it actually became impossible.

Padraig Pearse, one of the most significant rebels of the 1916 uprising, claimed that in Ireland "there must be not two nations or three nations but one nation".