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Currently Irish articles display a number of different approaches to denote national identity. Concerns have been expressed that using the word 'Ireland' alone can mislead, given that it refers to both the Irish state, and the whole island (which contains Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom).
The main variations currently found on Misplaced Pages are:
- Republic of Ireland - a commonplace disambiguator, which will link directly to the Republic of Ireland article
- Ireland - which will link directly to the Ireland article (which currently covers both the Irish state throughout history and the island)
- Ireland (written as ]) - a pipe-link which leads to the Republic of Ireland article