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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- 4 On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
- 5 WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
- 6 LISTEN: Liam Neeson reads Patrick Kavanagh’s “In Memory of My Father”
- 7 On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
- 8 On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
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