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.
Forget Hades and Loki, who was the Celtic god of death?
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Achill Oral Histories record the lives of this Mayo island people
All the traditional Irish recipes you'll need for Christmas dinner
Justice for Kerry man of 1895 who was executed for murder he didn't commit
On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
When a farmer discovered an ancient Bronze Age tomb on Dingle Peninsula
When Elizabeth Taylor brought a pet monkey to her Dublin hotel
The Irish roots of Anne Rice, the queen of vampire novels
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- 4 Three delicious potato recipes for an easy Irish-inspired meal
- 5 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 6 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
- 9 No home, no wedding: Housing crisis blamed for collapse in Ireland's marriage rates
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