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.
Why the Irish swear so much
Remarkable tombstone of Irish immigrant found under San Francisco home
Did John Kennedy Jr and Princess Diana have a secret meeting in NYC?
The Bloody Monday riots of 1855 were the most horrific attack on Irish Catholic immigrants
Five Irish American serial killers and evil doers - the worst Irish on earth
Irish housekeeper of the Confederate White House
The story behind teenage Bill Clinton and JFK’s handshake
What’s up with leprechauns - the truth about the little people
Irish Great Hunger tells its lessons but will we listen?
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 On This Day: Dermot Morgan and Frank Kelly, of “Father Ted” fame, passed away
- 3 Why is Ireland so green? The science behind the Emerald Isle's famous hue
- 4 How to craft the perfect bowl of traditional Irish stew
- 5 Best Irish foods to treat your Dad with this Father's Day
- 6 More than three dozen South African nationals deported from Ireland via charter flight
- 7 Belfast City Hall's 4th of July concert cancelled due to "availability of potential headline acts"
- 8 Dad's ticket to heaven - An Irish American Father's Day story
- 9 Behind the Irish name: Mairead, the once popular name on the verge of extinction
