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.
Brass plate from Oliver Cromwell’s coffin goes to auction
Dublin’s 1916 Rising Freedom Trail will be based on Boston’s
D-Day hero honors WWII Irish soldiers during French highest honor acceptance speech
Sinn Fein takes major step as McGuinness to honor World War I Irish
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1,500-year-old Galway bones and antlers believed to be part of ancient rituals
Quinnipiac Irish Famine museum puts records of the Great Hunger online
Debates bound to arise surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising centenary
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