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.
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
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Thomas J Clarke remembered 110 years after his execution
The Irish soldier who went on to rule a small kingdom in India
The Easter Rising and a day at the races for my Irish grandfather
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- 3 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 4 How to make the perfect Irish soda bread
- 5 The extraordinary life of Thomas Francis Meagher the Immortal Irishman
- 6 The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
- 7 The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- 8 The top twenty books every Irish American should read
- 9 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
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