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 Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination inspired RFK's greatest speech
Ireland’s first astronaut? Mayo woman continues training in US
Birth “backlash” politics - the assassinations, riots and war protests of 1968
Selling my parents’ Co. Clare tavern where all the Irish music greats played
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
“Your father has gone to look after Patrick:” How JFK Jr and Caroline’s nanny broke news of JFK’s death
Dublin's Shelbourne Hotel has witnessed key events in Ireland's history
Churchill wanted Irish bombed from the air, refused Michael Collins' plea
Test yourself with these top census statistics, facts and figures about Ireland
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Historic facts about Irish pubs you may not have heard of
- 3 Best Irish foods to treat your Dad with this Father's Day
- 4 What are the top Irish history books for children?
- 5 Ireland’s Travel Secrets: The Sky Road and Clifden in Co Galway
- 6 More than three dozen South African nationals deported from Ireland via charter flight
- 7 Belfast City Hall's 4th of July concert cancelled due to "availability of potential headline acts"
- 8 Dad's ticket to heaven - An Irish American Father's Day story
- 9 Behind the Irish name: Mairead, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
