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.
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- 1 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 2 On This Day: Daniel O'Connell, "The Liberator," died, in Genoa, in 1847
- 3 On This Day: St. Brendan the Navigator, an early transatlantic voyager, died in 587
- 4 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 5 Kevin Costner's Irish roots in County Kilkenny
- 6 Kilkenny, the Marble City, one of Ireland's most beautiful destinations
- 7 Rory McIlroy files for divorce from wife of seven years
- 8 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 9 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois