An Irish protest

[Brennus]

Well, not really. Have a look at Raftery's Pagan Celtic Ireland

I intend to as soon as I have finished Cunliffe's "Iron Age" communities in Britain.

That said, even if we had unlimited provinces, I would not be in favour of an Irish faction: there are just not enough real facts to work with.

Neither would I. A Goidelic faction would be akin to a Scandanavian faction in terms of historical accuracy.

So Ireland the land of heroes is not unified ? Just curious.

Any subject should be and will be discussed. We live in a Democracy (or is the Netherlands the only country where you can do such things ? I am sure not) with freedom of speech even though it will rise some eyebrows.
Medieval times are over! And on top of that its was an Irishman who started this topic?

I must confess I am not Irish, I simply live here, I am British (and not in the Orange Order sense of the word, I am Scottish on my fathers side, English on my mothers and I was born and raised in Manchester). If you want to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland and Irish history in general feel free to PM me but as Ludens said no discussing Ireland outside of the timeframe EBII is concerned with.

Personally I don't think the Romans could have held Ireland, like Caledonia it did not posses the socio-political framework that the Roman state could graft its administration onto. Other Celtic area such as central transalpine Gaul, cisalpine Gaul and south eastern Britain did possess the necessary socio-political features to enable the Roman administration to latch on; Oppidum, increasingly complex and centralised governments, an economy based on crop production and trade etc. Ireland's reliance on pastoralism and lack of large settlements meant that, in my opinion, although the Romans would have had no difficulty beating the Irish in combat they would have found it very very difficuly to Romanise the Irish.