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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The Irish soldier who witnessed President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
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- 1 What does "amadán" mean?
- 2 The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
- 3 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 4 The top five tourist attractions in County Meath
- 5 How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
- 6 The top twenty books every Irish American should read
- 7 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
- 8 How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
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History
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
How James Joyce came to be revered in Trieste, Italy
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Joyce clan
Profiles in Pride: Declan Flynn, a death that changed Ireland
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
Genealogy