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Hibernia (Latin: [(h)ɪˈbɛr.n̪i.a]) is the Classical Latin name for Ireland. The name Hibernia was taken from Greek geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe ( c. 320 BC ), Pytheas of Massalia called the island Iérnē (written Ἰέρνη ).
Irish religious belief and practices became Romanised after Saint Patrick and Saint Palladius began the slow process of spreading Christianity throughout Hibernia in the 5th century. One of the first churches in Hibernia was founded by Saint Palladius in 420 AD, with the name House of the Romans (Teach-na-Roman, actual Tigroney). [ 4 ]
Hibernia is a national personification of Ireland. She appeared in numerous cartoons and drawings, in particular, during the nineteenth century. [1] [2] As depicted in frequent cartoons in Punch, a magazine outspokenly hostile to Irish nationalism, Hibernia was shown as "Britannia's younger sister". [3] She is an attractive, vulnerable girl. [4]
Diarmuit was able to become High King of Ireland, and after his death, the O'Brien dynasty, who ruled Ireland since the days of Brian Boru, reclaimed the High Kingship and Irish influence in the Irish Sea area would increase dramatically over the next few decades, notably under High King Muircherteach Ua Briain, who was noted for his interest ...
Ireland (Ancient Greek: Ἰουερνία, romanized: Iouernía [1]: 142 [3] or Latin: Hibernia) was known to the Romans and may have been partially colonised by them. [2] Tacitus mentioned the island in his writings as "a small country in comparison with Britain, but larger than the islands of the Mediterranean.
Poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists used Erin in English as a romantic name for Ireland. [2] Often, "Erin's Isle" was used. In this context, along with Hibernia , Erin is the name given to the female personification of Ireland, but the name was rarely used as a given name, probably because no saints , queens, or literary figures ...
Some scholars point out that the name "Scotland" is ultimately derived from Scotia, a Latin term first used for Ireland (also called Hibernia by the Romans) and later for Scotland, the Scoti peoples having originated in Ireland and resettled in Scotland.
—Pseudo-Aristotle, On the Universe, 393b Pliny the Elder, in the fourth book of his Natural History likewise calls Great Britain Albion. He begins his chapter on the British Isles as follows, after describing the Rhine delta: Ex adverso huius situs Britannia insula clara Graecis nostrisque monimentis inter septentrionem et occidentem iacet, Germaniae, Galliae, Hispaniae, multo maximis ...