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Emerald Isle

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ1335386
Source-derived summary

Emerald Isle or Emerald Island or variation, may also refer to:

Places

Emerald Isle (Northwest Territories), Canada

Emerald Isle (Ontario), Canada; a village in Selwyn township, Peterborough county

Emerald Isle, North Carolina, USA

Emerald Island (phantom), a phantom island reported by some early explorers to lie between Australia and Antarctica

St. John's Island, Egypt, also known as Zabargad or Emerald Island because of ancient peridot mines

Nicknamed

Ireland, so referred to in the poem When Erin First Rose by William Drennan

Kodiak Island, Alaska, USA

Lesbos, Greece

Montserrat, Caribbean

Phú Quốc, Vietnam

Other uses

Emerald Island (EP), by Caro Emerald

"The Emerald Isle", comic opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan

Emerald Isle (video game), 1984 computer game by Level 9

Ulmus parvifolia 'Emer I', the Chinese elm cultivar called Emerald Isle.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Emerald Isle” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Emerald, Isle and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Emerald, Isle and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Emerald Isle”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q1335386. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1984.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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The closest primary source, responsible institution and strongest cited specialist reference.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Emerald Isle”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Emerald Isle primary sources, Emerald Isle archive and Emerald research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Emerald Isle”?
  2. Which institution is responsible for the underlying evidence?
  3. What terminology or title could unlock a more precise catalogue search?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Emerald Isle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.