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.
Why is Derry also called Londonderry?
On This Day: The Lusitania sunk off the coast of County Cork
What's your Irish County? County Derry
WATCH: What do these Dubliners from 1982 really think of Cork people?
Ireland's most beautiful landscape - Beara, West Cork
Top interesting facts about County Cork
On This Day: Micheál O’Hanrahan, Easter Rising leader, was executed
On This Day: Edward Daly, the Easter Rising leader was executed
Fast-rising "classic" baby names that are making a comeback in Ireland in 2025
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- 3 An Irish twist on a winning comfort food - bangers and mash
- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
- 5 On This Day: The fiercest blizzard of the 'Big Snow' of 1947 hit Ireland
- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
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