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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- 2 Brits can’t get enough of Hurling on BBC as Limerick seal All-Ireland final
- 3 Taoiseach congratulates new British Prime Minister
- 4 "Tracing Forward" - New geneaology resource to find living Irish relatives
- 5 Paul Mescal gets sweet shout-out on Gracie Abrams' new album
- 6 Ireland to invest €4 million for Women in Sport
- 7 Top ten most interesting facts about County Waterford
- 8 On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
History
“We choose to go to the moon” - Recalling JFK’s famous speech on anniversary of the moon landing
On This Day: IRA bombs in London kill 11 people, seven horses in 1982
On This Day: Muhammad Ali fights Al "Blue" Lewis at Dublin's Croke Park
Eliza O'Conor Sloane: Uncovering hidden women's history
The Irish Americans who built Special Education in America
Genealogy
