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Originally Posted By: BranShea" The Republic of Ireland", can that be seen as a whole and Ireland as a part? I don't get it.
It's the other way around. They're giving examples of a larger geographical unit being used for a subset of that larger unit. Ireland includes Northern Ireland, a part of the UK, on the one hand and The Republic of Ireland on the other.
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