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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- 5 Planning a picnic! How’s about you make it Irish with these delicious recipes
- 6 How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
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- 9 Luciano Pavarotti's Irish beef recipe
