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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History
Margaret Thatcher described Francis Bacon's art as "dreadful pictures"
How Féile Na Marbh or 'Feast of the Dead' became Halloween
These terrifying Halloween figures all have Irish origins
On This Day: Frederick Douglass's powerful Cork speech denouncing racism was published in the Cork Examiner
Halloween in Ireland and its origins in the Celtic festival Samhain
Genealogy