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.
Armistices Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
On This Day: Outlaw Ned Kelly executed in Australia in 1880
Remembrance Sunday: Nearly 1,000 Irish died serving US army in World War I
Irish soldiers who died in World War I listed in new online database
An Cailleach - the Irish goddess of the winter and following her trail in Ireland
Irish American first name voted scientifically “most beautiful”
On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
On This Day: John F. Kennedy declared winner of 1960 US Presidential Election
On This Day: IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, 12 killed
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 3 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 4 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 5 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 6 Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
- 7 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
- 8 Exploring James Joyce's addresses in his hometown of Dublin
- 9 How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
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