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.
On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
The strange history of the Nazi plans to invade Ireland
Irish slave owner's role in illegal slave trafficking in 1860 explored in Netflix documentary
The terrible traumas of Ted Kennedy plus his greatest victories revealed in new book
JFK may have had gay experiences with friend claims biographer
Did JFK's Irish driver cause his death?
Boy George "sad and proud" of his ancestor, a famed executed IRA man
Read the letter JFK wrote to his alleged lover a month before he died
An emotional journey home - hunting my grandmother's grave in Galway
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- 2 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 3 Neven Maguire's apple tart and custard recipe
- 4 Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 5 Is Biden an Irish name?
- 6 Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
- 7 Eleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots
- 8 The magic of Walt Disney’s deep Irish roots
- 9 A journey through the historic pubs of Dublin
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