
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.

Pre-Famine census recovered 100 years after shelling of Four Courts
The smell of an open fire in Ireland is intoxicating, but what is Irish turf?
The NYC newspaper editor who spoke out against “No Irish Need Apply”
WATCH: Footage from a Dublin neighborhood, Stoneybatter, in 1979
On This Day: Six people killed during Loughinisland Massacre in Co Down
The fascinating 8,000-year history of Irish cuisine
Irish Pride: celebrating Ireland's most influential LGBTQ people
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
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- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter
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