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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The German war cemetery in the heart of the Wicklow Mountains
On This Day: US President John F Kennedy was born in 1917
Famine in an Irish town – how Dingle survived the Great Hunger
The Dearg Dur - the origin story of the Waterford legend
Celebrating the Irish who fought in the US Civil War this Memorial Day
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
How the illegitimate son of a Sligo man became the father of Chilean independence
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
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- 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
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