Roots
IrishCentral’s repository of everything to do with your Irish roots – from Irish history, your ancestors, your Irish name, to ancient myth, legend and folklore.
How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
This vintage former nickname is on the rise amongst parents in Ireland
National Archives takes Census 1926 on tour across Ireland
Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
The prolific bard of Erin, Thomas Moore
Five books for researching your Irish family history
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Brien Clan
How the most Irish town in America was built on seaweed
Discovery of 20-year long rainfall in Ireland in 2345BC
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 Maud Gonne is more than Yeats' muse - She's the goddess
- 4 Ireland's best countryside retreats revealed
- 5 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 6 Tis the (strawberry) season! Tasty summer recipes to try from Bord Bia
- 7 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 8 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 9 WATCH: Here’s what Bloomsday looked like 62 years ago in Dublin
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