What word was used by poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists in English as a romantic name for Ireland, that is the name sometimes given to the female personification of Ireland?
Erin Erin Erin is a Hiberno-English derivative of the Irish word ""Éirinn"". "Éirinn" is the dative case of the Irish word for Ireland - "Éire", genitive "Éireann", the dative being used in prepositional phrases such as ""go hÉirinn"" "to Ireland", ""in Éirinn"" "in Ireland", ""ó Éirinn"" "from Ireland". The dative has replaced the nominative in a few regional Irish dialects (particularly Galway-Connamara and Waterford). Poets and nineteenth-century Irish nationalists used "Erin" in English as a romantic name for Ireland. Often, "Erin's Isle" was used. In this context, along with Hibernia, Erin is the name given to the female personification of Ireland,
Ciara (given name) Ciara (pronounced , "C-R-uh" after the initials of Charles Revson) created by Revlon in 1973. It is also sometimes used in the United States as a spelling variant of the name Sierra, as popularized by the American R&B singer Ciara. Ciara (given name) Ciara is a popular Irish language female name and was tenth on the list of most popular names given to baby girls in Ireland in 2006. It is the feminine version of the name Ciarán, meaning "dark-haired" in Irish, and was also the name of Saint Ciara, a seventh-century Irish saint venerated by the Roman Catholic Church.