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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- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
- 3 WATCH: Liam Neeson takes his Easter Bunny audition very seriously
- 4 The Titanic's youngest survivor Millvina Dean, died at the age of 97
- 5 Gunrunners and frontline fighters: The women of the 1916 Rising
- 6 Darina Allen's Irish lemon tart recipe
- 7 Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
- 8 On This Day: Irish American Titanic hero "Unsinkable" Molly Brown passed
- 9 All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
History
Gráinne Ní Mháille and the two laws that shaped an Irish legend
Padraig Pearse and the making of a rebel leader
On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
WATCH: Irish short film about an Irish father and son's Titanic twist of fate
All was changed - but who are those "vivid faces" in Yeats' Easter 1916?
Genealogy