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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History
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
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Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
Genealogy
