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.
An Irishwoman was blamed for starting the Great Chicago Fire
An American journalist reports from Ireland during the Famine
How an Irish doctor survived WWII, captivity and the Atomic Bomb
Heartbreaking artwork depicting Great Hunger coffin ships now on display
I took my 80-year-old mother to Ireland to see the castles our ancestors built
I visited Ireland for the first time in 1957, when I was nine-years old (PHOTOS)
Where ten of the most famous Irish people are buried (PHOTOS)
What song did John F Kennedy ask Judy Garland to sing to him on the phone?
My great-aunt, the bootlegging Irish nun in Prohibition America
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- 1 Dublin Irish Festival returns to Ohio with music, dance and more
- 2 The ten most beautiful places to visit in Ireland
- 3 Remembering Tom Crean, the Co Kerry ice man
- 4 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 5 WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
- 6 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 7 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 8 Rolled pavlova with Irish strawberries and cream recipe
- 9 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
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