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.
My Grandfather: A forgotten hero of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
Ireland's sacred Celtic holidays
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Thomas J Clarke remembered 110 years after his execution
The Irish soldier who went on to rule a small kingdom in India
The Easter Rising and a day at the races for my Irish grandfather
Early Irish hunter-gatherers were dark skinned with blue eyes, says expert
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- 6 The Irish landscape that inspired Johnny Cash's "Forty Shades of Green"
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