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.
On This Day: Betty Williams, a co-recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize, was born in 1943
What's your Irish County? County Offaly
Why County Offaly is the greatest place in the world
The Monaghan man who filmed the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
An American WWII plane was excavated from Irish field 76 years after crashing
On This Day: Irish philanthropist Thomas Barnardo was born in 1845
Famine orphans from Northern Ireland transported to Australia
What's your Irish County? County Longford
What's your Irish County? County Louth
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- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
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