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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Irish housekeeper of the Confederate White House
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Irish Great Hunger tells its lessons but will we listen?
Did British "James Bond" kill two NYPD cops to get US into WW2?
Irish American war hero reunited with lost Purple Heart medal
True scale and violence of Ireland War of Independence as seen from Kerry
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- 5 Mishnóc: Handcrafted leather goods in County Galway
- 6 Fall in Ireland: Where to visit to enjoy the colors of autumn
- 7 Ten Irish American writers who transformed American literature with their unique voices
- 8 On This Day: “The Plough in the Stars” playwright Sean O'Casey passed away
- 9 On This Day: The Irish Brigade suffered 60% casualties at the Battle of Antietam
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