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.
Would you eat it? A biscuit that survived the Titanic is up for auction
Proof the Irish language is far from dead, from the Aran Islands to Dublin
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
Our Irish name’s history exposed and shamed
Petition launched to officially re-name Irish Famine “The Great Hunger”
Ireland’s Minister for Arts tours New Brunswick for International Famine Commemoration
No Irish Need Apply debate continues in the UK
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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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