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.
All Hail the Humble Spud!
Photo Album: O'Neil Family, Boston
The 1901 Census website is launched in New York City
Police records reveal Whitey Bulger's criminal beginnings
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Irish roots of Mormon founder Joseph Smith discovered
Parent suing over Phoebe Prince bullying meeting in South Hadley
Ship surgeons spurned famine and convict Irish
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- 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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