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Ó Briain, Micheál, “Hibernica 6. On the names of Ireland”, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 14 (1923): 326–334.

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“Hibernica 6. On the names of Ireland”
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Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 14 (1923)
Pokorny, Julius, and Rudolf Thurneysen (eds), Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 14 (1923), Halle: Max Niemeyer.
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14
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326–334
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Micheál Ó Briain, ‘Hibernica’, Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie 14 (1923)
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History, society and culture
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BanbaBanba
(time-frame ass. with Irish legendary history)
Banba is a designation for Ireland as a whole, though  “[o]rig. name of north Leinster = mag mBreg, hence from British compound *Banno-Magos [...] or from *ban-w-yā as a theonym” (eDIL s.v. Banba), as well as an eponymous character or personification who is said to have given her name to the island; sometimes mentioned along with two sisters, Ériu and Fódla, who did likewise.
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Irish placenames
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Dennis Groenewegen
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