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.
The English spy who ripped apart Irish America
Nurse Margaret Keogh - the first martyr of the 1916 Easter Rising
The true(ish) history of how the English invaded Ireland
Available online for the first time - Dublin workhouse records 1840-1919
Remembering Samuel Beckett on his anniversary
Rebel Wilson on her Irish convict ancestors
Five things you didn’t know about your Armagh ancestors
Did your Irish ancestor receive a military pension?
The top Irish engagement rings (PHOTOS)
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