Editing Names of the Irish state (section)

===Ancient===
The [[Annals of the Four Masters]] describe how Ireland was referred to in ancient times:<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 August 2015 |title=Annals of the Four Masters |url=https://www.ria.ie/library/catalogues/special-collections/medieval-and-early-modern-manuscripts/annals-four-masters |access-date=19 October 2022 |website=Royal Irish Academy |language=en}}</ref>
* During the time of the [[Partholonians]], [[Nemedians]], [[Fomorians]], and [[Firbolg]], the island was given a number of names:{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}}
** ''Inis Ealga'' signifying the ''noble'' or ''excellent island''. The Latin translation was ''Insula Nobilis''
** ''Fiodh-Inis'' signifying the ''Woody island''. In Latin this was ''Insula nemorosa''
** ''Crioch Fuinidh'' signifying the ''Final'' or ''remote country''. In Latin as ''Terra finalia''.
* ''Inisfáil'' meaning the ''Island of Destiny'', and ''Inisfalia'' or ''Insula Fatalis'' in Latin. This was the name used by the [[Tuatha Dé Danann]] and from this 'Fál' became an ancient name for Ireland. In this respect, therefore, ''[[Lia Fáil]]'', the Stone of Destiny, came to mean 'Stone of Ireland'. ''Inisfail'' appears as a synonym for ''[[Erin]]'' in some Irish romantic and nationalist poetry in English in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; [[Aubrey Thomas de Vere]]'s 1863 poem ''Inisfail'' is an example.
* ''[[Ériu]]'' (from which derived ''[[Éire]]''), ''[[Banba]]'' and ''[[Fódla]]'' were names given by the Dananns from three of their queens.{{clarify|reason="given by X from Y" is a strange grammatical construct whose meaning is unclear - please rephrase|date=January 2023}}{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
* ''Ierne'' refers to Ireland by various ancient Greek writers and many scholars{{who|date=January 2023}} have the opinion that in the poem when the [[Argonauts]] pass ''Neson Iernida'', that is, the ''Island Iernis'', they are referring to the island of Ireland, thus referring to Ireland longer ago than 1000 BC.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}
* ''[[Ogygia]]'' meaning ''the most ancient land'' is a name used by [[Plutarch]] in the first century which may{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} refer to Ireland.
* ''[[Hibernia]]'' is first used to refer to Ireland by [[Julius Caesar]] in his account of Britain, and became a common term used by the Romans. They also used a number of other terms, namely ''Juverna'', ''Juvernia'', ''Ouvernia'', ''Ibernia'', ''Ierna'', ''Vernia''. [[Ptolemy]] also refers to it as ''Iouernia'' or ''Ivernia''.
* ''[[Scotia]]'' or ''the land of the Scots'' is a term used by various Roman and other Latin writers, who referred to Irish raiders as [[Scoti]]. Some of the earliest mentions are in the 5th century, [[St. Patrick]] calls the Irish "Scoti", and in the 6th century, [[Isidore of Seville|St. Isidore]] bishop of Seville and [[Gildas]] the British historian both refer to Ireland as Scotia. It was a term that exclusively referred to Ireland up until the eleventh century{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} when modern Scotland was first referred to as Scotia. But even up until the sixteenth century, many{{who|date=January 2023}} Latin writers continued to refer to Ireland as Scotia.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}} From the twelfth to the sixteenth century, various scholars{{who|date=January 2023}} used to distinguish between Ireland and Scotland by using ''Scotia Vetus'' or ''Scotia Major'' meaning ''Old Scotia'' or the ''Greater Scotia'' for Ireland, and ''Scotia Minor'' or ''Lesser Scotia'' for Scotland.{{Citation needed|date=January 2023}}. The name [[Scoti]] is used to describe the [[High King of Ireland]] in the 9th Century [[Book of Armagh]], where [[Brian Boru]] is declared [[Imperator Scottorum]], or ''Emperor of the Irish (Gaels)''<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.historyireland.com/brian-boru-imperator-scotorum|title=Brian Boru : Imperator Scottorum|date=4 March 2014 }}</ref>
* ''Insula Sanctorum'' or the ''Island of the Saints'' and ''Insula Doctorum'' or the ''Island of the Learned'' are names used by various Latin writers{{who|date=January 2023}}; hence the modern-day quasi-poetic description of the island as the "Island of Saints and Scholars".<ref>{{cite book |last=Healy |first=John |author-link=John Healy (bishop) |title=Insula sanctorum et doctorum : or, Ireland's ancient schools and scholars |publisher=Sealy, Bryers & Walker |date=1912 |location=Dublin |pages=vi, 631 |url=https://archive.org/stream/insulasanctorume00heal#page/n9/mode/1up/search/Doctorum }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Cusack |first=Mary Francis |author-link=Margaret Anna Cusack |title=The life of Saint Patrick, Apostle of Ireland |publisher=Longman, Green & Co |date=1871 |location=London |pages=9–11 |url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeofsaintpatri00cusa#page/9/mode/1up/search/Insula+Doctorum }}</ref>