1. Football
2. Hurling
3. Poetry
4. Experimental theatre
5. Castle building
6. Eurovision
7. Beards
8. Austerity
9. Balladwriting
10. Contemporary quasireligous pop songs
11. Rugby
12. Wishful thinking
13. Fatalism
14. Celebrating
15. Flag creating
16. The craic, generally
17. Guilt
18. Shame
19. Turfcutting
20. Sitcoms about the clergy
21. Migrating
22. Conversation
23. Walking on the ice
24. Dancing in the moonlight
25. Ceilis
26. Tea
27. Cattle rustling
28. Coping with endless precipitation
29. Grudge cultivating
30. The concertina
31. The harp
32. Sitcoms about genderbending pensioners
33. Football
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