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.
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Surprising spots to use the ‘cupla focal’ in Ireland
Francis O'Neill: The Irish cop in Chicago who saved traditional Irish music
Spancil Hill - The tale behind the famous Irish ballad
Irish woman reunited with long-lost father tragically reveals he has Alzheimer's
Best songs of the 1916 Easter Rising
On This Day: Hurricane Charley blows into Ireland in 1986
The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 4 Maud Gonne is more than Yeats' muse - She's the goddess
- 5 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 6 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 7 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 8 Tis the (strawberry) season! Tasty summer recipes to try from Bord Bia
- 9 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
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