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.
How WB Yeats' connection to Sligo stretches back through generations
"Buried silently and sadly" - The Irish Famine dead of 1847
This vintage former nickname is on the rise amongst parents in Ireland
National Archives takes Census 1926 on tour across Ireland
Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
The prolific bard of Erin, Thomas Moore
Five books for researching your Irish family history
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Brien Clan
How the most Irish town in America was built on seaweed
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