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Ireland is the English language equivalent of Eire. Eire is the Irish name for the island of Ireland. Its not the only name used in the Irish language others such as Banbha were used. Eire was a princess of the Tuatha de Danaan the semi-mythical early Celts who assumed god-like charachteristcs. Ireland is named after her.
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∙ 12y ago
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∙ 12y agoIt is from Middle English Ireland, from the Old English Irland/Iraland: Iras the Irish
+ land. Éire or Éirinn is the name in Irish (from a goddess, Ériu).
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∙ 14y agoIt is a Celtic language. The Celts dominated large areas of Europe, including the British Isles, in pre-Roman times. There are several families of Celtic languages. In the UK there is Galeic, the basis of the languiages of Scotland and Ireland, and then there are the Brythonic languages, Welsh, the old Cornish language (now extinct) and Bréton, the Celtic language sopken in Brittany in north-western France.
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∙ 12y agomany people believe it originated from Roman and Gaelic, but there wrong, it was infact originated from Korean pikeys
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Ireland.
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adam land
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