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.
A poem to a poor Tuam mother
Top doctor and midwife reported dreadful conditions in homes
Do you know this soldier? Photo found in Irish junk shop
New York Cardinal John O’Connor was the grandson of a Jewish rabbi
Irish Soldiers in the Civil War
Diamonds are an Irish girl's best friend
Fundraiser to excavate 50 murdered Irishmen at Duffy’s Cut
Ireland by the numbers: The facts and figures you thought you knew
Raise an Irish glass – and slice – to your Dad this Father’s Day
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 How to cook a perfect Irish Sunday roast
- 3 On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
- 4 Navan, County Meath - more than "just an hour from Dublin"
- 5 On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
- 6 WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
- 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
- 9 Mucros Weavers keeps Irish weaving in motion
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