Gatland's squad for the tour includes 15 Welshmen, 10 Englishmen, nine Irishmen and three Scotsmen.
Non-Americans have won the last five majors, two by South Africans, two by Northern Irishmen and one by a German.
They are unlikely, alas, to join the 21 Irishmen still at newly cool Arlington House, reminders of a bygone age.
But then a group of Irishmen do something so absurd as to make it almost impossible not to mention this background.
Eight Irishmen signed the Declaration of Independence, fully one-seventh of the signator.
In 1916, at Frongoch in the valley, 1, 800 Irishmen, including the republican leader Michael Collins, were interned there after the Dublin uprising.
There's no 20-piece orchestra, no backing singers and no stage dancers - so its up to the four Irishmen to make it work.
Founded in 1848, the cbot tended to attract South Side Irishmen.
O'Gara won a penalty after breaking through the Northampton line on the stroke of half-time and he slotted over to put the Irishmen in front.
Firstly, Hogg was set free to plough over in the corner before Dewey ended a thrilling move featuring Paterson who finally finished of the Irishmen with a fifth try.
Andrew Little put the young Irishmen further ahead early in the second half, lashing the ball past Rangers team-mate Gallacher from close range after good wing play on the right.
He went on say that he had attended a military dinner on Monday night which celebrated the battle of Barrosa when British troops, including many Irishmen, defeated the French in March 1811.
As Mr Al Fayed learned when he sought British citizenship, and Man U's Irishmen did when they quarrelled with the club's manager, Sir Alex Ferguson, last winter, local acceptance does not come easy.
MacStiofain joined the Irish republican movement's English organisation, the United Irishmen, but was jailed in the early 1950s when, along with two other IRA men, he was caught in a failed arms raid on a British Army barracks in Essex.
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