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.
Tens of thousands of Great Hunger dead immortalized at Glasnevin Cemetery
Historic Irish national anthem given a modern acoustic twist (VIDEO)
Nearly 300,000 Irish children transported from New York to rural America
Enter to win iconic 1916 Leaders prints from celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh
Places to see in Ireland before you die – part two
Irish census names translated into gibberish by Canadian institute
The amazing life of Mary Dooley, an orphan girl from a Galway workhouse
Could your ancestor have been an orphan workhouse girl who emigrated in 1853?
In forgotten famine of 1879 Irish Americans aided relief efforts
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- 5 Sir Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister
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