In Irish mythology, Ériu, daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland.
″The Harp of Erin″ painting by Thomas Buchanan Read
The Tuatha Dé Danann, also known by the earlier name Tuath Dé, are a supernatural race in Irish mythology. Many of them are thought to represent deities of pre-Christian Gaelic Ireland.
The Tuatha Dé Danann as depicted in John Duncan's Riders of the Sidhe (1911)