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.
Using historical dog licences to trace your Irish ancestors
Forget bar brawls check out this long list of 18th century Irish dueling rules
America’s first “anchor baby” was an Irish girl named Julia Lynch (VIDEO)
Drones help US historian find Irish archaeological treasures
Skeletons of 1860 cholera epidemic found under Dublin roadworks
No murders at Duffy's Cut claims local clergyman
Irish nationalist who escaped Australian prison lies in unmarked Chicago grave
Titanic photographer Father Browne’s enchanting album of Dublin (PHOTOS)
Famed 18th century Irish painter struck a deal with the Cherokee Indians
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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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