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.
Were your ancestors servants or masters in Ireland?
Mad Mac and Father Sexton: Irish Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Spanish Armada sailors may lie in unmarked mass grave in Northern Ireland
300 years of Catholic parish records site racks up 4 million hits
Irish government will fund 1916 Rising centenary events in Britain
Many No Irish Need Apply ads discovered in the New York Times archives (PHOTOS)
Record numbers visit historic Clare Loop Head lighthouse (PHOTOS)
Ireland’s government invests $2m into 5,000-year-old Ancient East (PHOTOS)
School days provide more clues to Irish ancestry
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- 1 Bake perfect Irish brown bread at home with this foolproof traditional recipe
- 2 Discover the ten essentials that make up a true Irish breakfast
- 3 Robert Emmet's words from Dublin's scaffold still stir Irish hearts today
- 4 Ten Irish American writers who transformed American literature with their unique voices
- 5 From a Clare classroom to revolution, how Michael Cusack created the GAA
- 6 Ireland's second cities: Venture past the obvious in these hidden gems
- 7 Irish American discovers his great-grandfather in a 1929 Seattle railroad photo
- 8 Aer Lingus honors Dolly Parton with EI95 flight number on Dublin to Nashville route
- 9 Step back in time through Ireland's Shannon Region of castles and ancient wonders
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