
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.

11 wedding ceremony readings by famous Irish writers
11 Irish baby names inspired by our favorite actors
On This Day: Roger Casement's body was exhumed to be re-interred in Dublin
On This Day: The first burial took place at Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832
The modern Irish boy name that is set to be popular this year
WATCH: Fascinating footage of Cork City in color in 1902
How an Irish book tour transformed Frederick Douglass
On This Day: Irish Famine writer William Carleton is born
A look at the US presidents with Irish roots
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- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
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