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.
Read Jackie Kennedy’s letter to the President of Ireland written after JFK’s assassination
Irish facts about Independence Day you may not know
This is the oldest known photo of an Irish Famine survivor
Win a copy of "Goddesses of Ireland” plus online Celtic course from Moon Mná
The Irish roots of Kate Bush
Was it genocide? What the British ruling class really said about the Irish Famine
What have the Irish done for America?
Ireland’s historic Birth Information and Tracing Act signed into law
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 4 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 5 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 6 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
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