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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- 2 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 3 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
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- 5 Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 6 Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
- 7 Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
History
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
How this Irish woman almost didn't survive the Titanic disaster
Thomas Kent: the forgotten Cork rebel of the 1916 Easter Rising
Irish who lost their lives on the Titanic remembered
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy