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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Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy - the scandalous, rebellious, and tragic life of JFK’s sister
PT Barnum circus star General Tom Thumb’s strong links to Ireland
The short, unhappy life of my great-grandfather Patrick O’Hanlon
Ancient secrets of the Hill of Tara revealed
The top five questions about Irish genealogy
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History
Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
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Faces of the Titanic: Ellen Toomey, the third class domestic servant who survived
Genealogy
