
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.

The top ten reasons to visit Ireland
Did the ancient Irish trade instruments with musicians in ancient India?
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
The London Jew gave his life for Ireland during Easter 1916
WATCH: Vintage footage of First Holy Communion in 1930s Ireland
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
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