Talk:C. S. Lewis

InternetArchiveBot – can someone please report a false positive?

As we've all seen who have this page on our watchlists, InternetArchiveBot keeps falsely tagging the link to Lewis's Encyclopedia of Fantasy entry as a dead link. I've tried to report it as a false positive but it seems I don't have the requisite permissions. Can someone who has, please do this for us? —VeryRarelyStable 07:10, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

I reported this (probably in the wrong place) last year, and the reponse was pretty dismissive, so I just resigned myself to undoing the bot whenever necessary. At least it seems to have stopped doing the same thing on Tolkien's page. Deor (talk) 12:26, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Irish nationality

Has it yet been mentioned that Lewis was in fact , Irish? The article has some misleading statements regarding him as british.

Thanks for the soon to come changes and all the work yall do! 2600:1004:B106:FE:F8D2:419B:9059:8866 (talk) 16:59, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Yep. read up 3 paragraphs. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 18:01, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

Worship ... men of faith

Lewis did not come to worship men of faith rather honour them. Worship is reserved for God alone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.91.129.179 (talk) 13:12, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

You are reading it wrong. In the "Return to Christianity" section it says "He later came to consider himself honoured by worshipping with men of faith who came in shabby clothes and work boots and who sang all the verses to all the hymns." (my emphasis) Favonian (talk) 13:29, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2025

C S Lewis was a Northern Irish writer, not British Daiseves (talk) 11:20, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

File:X mark.svg Not done This has often been discussed here. Please see the archives of this page, and note that Northern Ireland did not exist as a political entity at the time of Lewis's birth. Deor (talk) 11:52, 21 February 2025 (UTC)

Nationality

CS Lewis was a self proclaimed Irishman, as per the quote in this Wikipedia article. He was born in Ireland and spent his entire childhood there. The existence of Northern Ireland as a political entity is irrelevant to that. He does not need to be called 'Northern Irish'; simply 'Irish', which he was. "I am often surprised to find how utterly ignored Yeats is among the men I have met: perhaps his appeal is purely Irish – if so, then thank the gods that I am Irish” C.S. Lewis Quadrinity1 (talk) 15:45, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

This point has been answered many, many times. Check the archives of this talk page. —VeryRarelyStable 11:23, 26 February 2025 (UTC)