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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On This Day: Easter Rising hero Padraig Pearse born in 1879
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- 1 Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell monument in Dublin
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 What is Bloomsday? Why does James Joyce's "Ulysses" matter so much?
- 4 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 5 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 6 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 7 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 8 Yeats’s Nobel Prize win marked a turning point in Irish literature
- 9 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
