Image accompanying the Mixmag article about the implications of Brexit for ravers in Britain
BRITISH music magazine Mixmag recently published an article about what Brexit would mean for club-goers in Britain, however the image that accompanied the article raised some eyebrows.
The image (above) highlighted all of Ireland, claiming it to be part of Britain.
This ruffled some feathers with readers from Ireland, who pointed out the mistake.
The magazine then posted an apology from its editor (who is a Scotsman of Irish descent living in London) saying that "we were thinking in terms of visual aesthetics instead of [the] geographical and political reality".
Mixmag has since changed the image used in the article - this time Ireland has been marked in the same colour as the rest of Europe.
This is not the first time British media has claimed Ireland or an Irish person to be British.
Earlier this year, the London Critics' Circle, an association of critics of the arts, nominated Saoirse Ronan, Michael Fassbender and Colin Farrell for its "British Actress of the Year" and "British Actor of the Year" categories which caused uproar.
The group subsequently changed the name of the categories to "British/Irish Actress of the Year" and "British/Irish Actor of the year."
See the comments, the editor's apology and the new image below:
Here's the editor's excellent apology:
A message from our Editor, to all those who were offended by our illustration:
"Many, many apologies to readers from the Republic of Ireland after our illustration conflated Eire with the United Kingdom.
I can only imagine that we were thinking in terms of visual aesthetics instead of geographical and political reality, but there's no excuse; as Editor I should have spotted it and corrected it.
As a Scot of Irish descent living in London I know how important national identity is to all of us in these islands - and to Ireland especially in this of all years.
Tá brón orm and best of luck at the Euros."
And the new, more accurate image:
The new image used by Mix Mag's article
