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: President JFK lifts naval blockade on Cuba
The Irish soldier who witnessed President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
How to discover if your family was in the Irish military
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No guns for the IRA? No problem!
Harry Connick Jr. Irish roots revealed and he thinks they are "so cool"
Why one Spanish region stormed the British Consul General during Irish War of Independence
Eamon De Valera and the Kansas city bandit queen
Michael Collins' close call - his escape across a Dublin rooftop
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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
Guy Fawkes was killed trying to restore a Catholic to British throne
On This Day: Richard Nixon elected president of the United States in 1968
National Love Your Red Hair Day: Maureen O'Hara and the most famous redheads in history
As important as Newgrange or Tara - an ancient Irish site you’ve never heard of
"Bad Bridget" film adaptation in the works from "Kneecap" director
Genealogy
