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.
Your quick-fire guide to new online Church of Ireland parish records
Historical Irish newspapers – eight new titles go online
Potato genetically engineered to resist blight that plagued Irish during Great Hunger
Irish language activist calls on public to adopt an endangered word
Forget Sean and Mary, Americans are naming their babies after guns
“Epic Journeys Ellis Island” online exhibition tracks 71 people from Clare’s stories of immigration
The Navvies: How the Irish built the modern British railways
Were your ancestors servants or masters in Ireland?
Mad Mac and Father Sexton: Irish Prisoners of War during the Second World War
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 New York mum let her newborn choose her own name – and she ended up with an Irish classic
- 3 Teeth reveal important clues into diet of famine Irish
- 4 LISTEN: Liam Neeson reads Patrick Kavanagh’s “In Memory of My Father”
- 5 Nearly 200 Americans receiving Irish citizenship in Killarney ceremonies this week
- 6 Sir Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister
- 7 Irish potato bread recipe, perfect for a weekend brunch
- 8 Ireland's six national parks to check out
- 9 Irish summers and memories of my childhood
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