Roots
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From window tax to hats - Taxing Ireland through history
Was a Galway Fenian wrongly hanged in Canada 150 years ago?
Ten reasons you should marry an Irish farmer
One of Ireland’s greatest medieval treasures is now available online
Celtic chariot discovered by amateur with metal detector could win him a $1.3 million reward
800 Irish famine dead to be memorialized with Celtic Cross on Boston island
How Patriots quarterback great Tom Brady found his Irish roots
De Valera escaped English prison with a key in a cake 100 years ago today
Most read
- 1 Experiencing Titanic's last port of call in Cobh, Ireland
- 2 What did the Titanic passengers eat?
- 3 On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
- 4 How the 1916 Easter Rising gave way to Ireland's War of Independence
- 5 The weird and wonderful place names around Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The maker of the Model T, Henry Ford passed away
- 7 On This Day: WWII's Belfast Blitz begins, bringing horrendous losses
- 8 James Connolly and the fire of the Easter Rising
- 9 Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
History
Red wine in Georgian Dublin: it's healing and detrimental effects
What did the Titanic passengers eat?
Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s poet president who helped save the Irish language
Genealogy
