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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How well do you really know Ireland?
Most read
- 1 Discover where nature meets heritage with CIE Tours' NEW Ireland Walking & Hiking tours
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
WATCH: Hozier delivers Irish history lesson during concert in Boston's Fenway Park
The siege of the Four Courts: The beginning of the Irish Civil War
Genealogy
