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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Ancient gold rush discovered as UK and Ireland traded 4,500 years ago
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- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
- 8 July 4th recipe for firecracker shrimp
- 9 Cork suspected cocaine seizure is Ireland's biggest drug bust of the year
History
On This Day: A US whaling ship freed six Irish revolutionaries from Australian prison
Final days of Michael Collins: ambush, assassination, and peace talks in Ireland's Civil War
How the killing of Michael Collins changed Ireland for the worse
The Toronto doctor who cared for Ireland’s Great Hunger victims
Vinny Byrne, the most feared assassin sent by Michael Collins
Genealogy