` :: It is different, the generally accepted meaning of the word ``Ireland`` has changed since the time of CS Lewis's birth. No-one would interpret the unexplained word ``Ireland`` as part of a no-longer existing country unless they were already familiar with the history, and were paying attention to the year when Lewis was born ::Your suggestion that the word ``Ireland`` is used to mean part of the previously existing ``United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland`` is refuted in the CS Lewis article itself. The word ``Ireland`` links to an article whose first sentence reads:  ``This article is about the island``  ::The form you prefer chooses ``elegance`` over being informative. ::If you revert a Bold edit in future for reasons of contradicting pre-existing consensus please see  WP OAS On revert and make reference to the pre-existing concensus in the first instance.   `