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.
Most popular baby names in Ireland 2017 revealed
Magic Halloween spells from the White Witch of Cobh
How an Irish-born great-great-grandfather came to fight in the US Civil War
The top Irish Halloween scary spirits - a terrifying bunch
"The best left" - Irish emigrants and those who remained to pick up the pieces
Boston's Fenway Park - home to GAA, hurling, and freedom
Could these Irish names become extinct due to current trends?
Famine victims had badly rotten teeth due to heavy smoking new study reveals
The story of Chicago May, Irish Queen of crooks
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- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 What is Bloomsday? Why does James Joyce's "Ulysses" matter so much?
- 3 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 4 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 5 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 6 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 7 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
- 8 My Irish Cousin: The Irish car rental that really means all-inclusive
- 9 Lord Haw Haw: Hitler's infamous Irishman hanged for treason
