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.
Fighting for a sacred resting place for thousands of Famine dead on Staten Island
Oliver Cromwell was a "metrosexual" obsessed with his appearance
Researchers traced Irish fair skin back to India and the Middle East
10,000-year-old settlement found in Cork
A “litany of mishaps and disasters” lead up to the 1916 Easter Rising
The crucial facts about Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising in one easy infographic
Matthew McConaughey hopes to send his kids to the Gaeltacht
30 Irish Americans making the world a better place
When an American student found a 12th century Irish brooch on a Galway Beach
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