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.
On This Day: Lord Haw Haw, Irish American Nazi propagandist, born in 1906
Reflecting on the feisty Irish women of France, past, present and future
On This Day: Brian Boru, legendary High King of Ireland, died in 1014
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
Ireland's oldest and most charming pubs
New book explores the overlooked story of Bridget Kennedy
On This Day: Charlotte Brontë was born in 1816
The daughter of Irish immigrants who survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters
WATCH: Meet Ireland’s last cycling postman in this 1975 interview
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- 1 The Irish flag and the Ivory Coast flag - the two most confused flags in the world
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 The magic of Ireland’s thatched cottages
- 4 Three delicious potato recipes for an easy Irish-inspired meal
- 5 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 6 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 No home, no wedding: Housing crisis blamed for collapse in Ireland's marriage rates
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
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