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.
Michael Collins' close call - his escape across a Dublin rooftop
Irish Australian outlaw Ned Kelly's famous armor
Why has there only been two Catholic US Presidents - JFK and Joe Biden?
How was Newgrange built? Archaeologists long boat discovery could shed some light
Richard Nixon's connection to a small town in County Kildare
This month in history: Suffragette Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington born in Co Cork
Top ghost sightings in Ireland
Genealogists petition for early release of 1926 Irish census
Newly discovered Irish American who raised the flag at Iwo Jima in World War II
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- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 The truth about Irish bog bodies
- 4 Harry Kane’s Irish roots back in the spotlight after England's World Cup win
- 5 Study Gaelic Literature and Culture online with University College Cork
- 6 27 Irish baby names for boys and girls inspired by nature
- 7 On This Day: Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly, of “Father Ted” fame, passed away
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- 9 Ireland's beautiful Irish bog cotton, a secret delight
