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We currently state that Cabinteely Geraldines were named after Lord Edward Fitzgerald in 1886. This is currently hard to verify, as there are no citations for the specific claim, while the two citations for the entire section are hard to access, one being a book that is reportedly out of print and offers no previews in Google Books, while the other refers to the club's own website, whose history section currently seems to have disappeared (possibly because it was felt to be unreliable?). Meanwhile our claim appears to lose the possibly deliberate ambiguity of 'Geraldines' (as the term can plausibly be seen as referring to the FitzGerald dynasty), an ambiguity which might have been socially and politically important to maintain before independence, and then to lose after independence. On the other hand I'm reluctant to flag the issue with a 'citation needed' flag for fear that this may in practice ultimately do more harm than good. So instead I'm just raising the question here in case other editors can come up with a better way of either verifying the claim or suitably amending it (Per WP:NOTCOMPULSORY and WP:BNO, I'm not sufficiently interested or informed to do any more work on the matter myself). Tlhslobus (talk) 10:56, 24 October 2019 (UTC)Reply
