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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 447 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HIBERNIA , in See also:

ancient See also:geography, one of the names by which See also:Ireland was known to See also:Greek and See also:Roman writers. Other names were lerne, Iuverna, Iberio. All these are adaptations of a See also:stem from which also See also:Erin is descended. The See also:island was well known to the See also:Romans through the reports of traders, so far at least as its coasts. But it never became See also:part of the Roman See also:empire. See also:Agricola (about A.D. 8o) planned its See also:conquest, which he judged an easy task, but the Roman See also:government vetoed the enterprise. During the Roman occupation of See also:Britain, Irish pirates seem to have been an intermittent See also:nuisance, and Irish emigrants may have settled occasionally in See also:Wales; the best attested See also:emigration is that of the Scots into See also:Caledonia. It was only in See also:post-Roman days that Roman See also:civilization, brought perhaps by See also:Christian missionaries like See also:Patrick, entered the island.

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