Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy at squad training in Saipan in 2002. Photograph: Kieran Doherty/Reuters
1 Céad Míle Fáilte
2 Land of winter
3 The Giant’s Causeway
4 Tír na nÓg
5 Conn of the Hundred Battles
6 Nuada of the Silver Arm
7 The luck of the Irish
8 The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow
9 The Salmon of Knowledge
10 St Patrick banishing the snakes
11 “How the Irish Saved Civilisation”
12 “A barbarous people devoted to laziness” (Giraldus Cambrensis on the Irish)
13 “A filthy people, wallowing in vice” (ditto)
14 The 800 years of Oppression
15 A country with not water enough to drown a man, wood enough to hang one, nor earth enough to bury him in.
16 The uncrowned king of Irel
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