
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 New Year's Day 1892 Annie Moore was the first immigrant through Ellis Island
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Over a million Irish passports issued in 2022
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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
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History

"Galway Bay" - the mystery man who wrote the classic song
The story behind Ireland's favorite song, "Zombie" by The Cranberries
History of the beloved "Song for Ireland"
Éamon de Valera - the Irish Machiavelli who destroyed Michael Collins
On This Day: One-fifth of Ireland attends Michael Collins's funeral in Dublin
Genealogy
