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Hotel on foreign peninsula around point reminds the Romans of Ireland (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

hibernia

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'ireland' is the definition.
('Hibernia' can be a synonym of 'ireland')

'hotel on foreign peninsula around point' is the wordplay.
'hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'foreign peninsula' becomes 'iberia' (Iberia is an example. I am not sure about the 'foreign' bit.**).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'point' becomes 'n' (N is an example).
'iberia' placed around 'n' is 'ibernia'.
'h'+'ibernia'='HIBERNIA'

'reminds the romans of' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.

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(Other definitions for hibernia that I've seen before include "land once" , "Old or poetic name for Ireland (8)." , "Poetic name for Ireland, now archaic" , "Ancient Ireland" , "Emerald Isle, historically, poetically" .)

I've seen this clue in the Irish Times (Crosaire) and the Irish Times.
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