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.
Irish immigrants lives laid out at New York Tenement Museum
The attempted assassination by an Irishman of a British prince in Australia
Learning from the past - the forgotten graves of County Kerry
Seven hard-won lessons from searching for my Irish ancestors
The Battle of Waterloo and the Irish
Remembering the Irish role in the Battle of Waterloo
How Bennett Cerf got James Joyce’s Ulysses, the ultimate banned book, into the US
Campaign calls for London museum to return Irish giant’s stolen bones
Extraordinary story of Titanic’s second officer Charles Herbert Lightroller
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 On This Day: Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly, of “Father Ted” fame, passed away
- 3 Why is Ireland so green? The science behind the Emerald Isle's famous hue
- 4 How to craft the perfect bowl of traditional Irish stew
- 5 Best Irish foods to treat your Dad with this Father's Day
- 6 Dad's ticket to heaven - An Irish American Father's Day story
- 7 Behind the Irish name: Mairead, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
- 8 Belfast City Hall's 4th of July concert cancelled due to "availability of potential headline acts"
- 9 More than three dozen South African nationals deported from Ireland via charter flight
