They did and left, it was they christened it Hibernia  which the etymology is Latin Hiver (winter)  Hiber-Nation, It was too cold to conquer as the Gulf stream had not yet changed course. That is why we are different. We were not romanised into vertical thinking, the Irish are lateral thinkers, (fuzzy logic) we have dual methods of solving problems.
We have two clocks on our station platforms, both telling different times. If they both read the same, we'd only be needing the one clock. Unlike other nation states, Ireland is not a place but a state of mind. Freud said that we cannot be ****** Analysed. The highest ratio of dyslexics in the world are in Ireland.

Idiot Savant

Of wit and wisdom
be that the wizards lot.
But dunce or fool
no genius has he got.
To tell apart the both
like this and that.
So easy not, two heads
with only just one hat.





Try and work that out.