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.
Did your Irish ancestors settle in New York?
Irish Vice President Mike Pence, one heartbeat from the presidency
Famous century-old “Dancing at the crossroads” group identified
What Irish name has been among the top baby names for 100 years?
Secret tales of an Irish boyhood long ago
Eleventh-hour plea for Biden to restore rank of Pearl Harbor commanding officer
The search for an ancestor brings two Irish American families together
Interesting characters from the Easter Rising revealed
Get ready for St. Patrick’s Day and invest in a special plot of land in Ireland
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- 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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