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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Chef Gilligan's Irish smoked salmon quiche recipe
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How I found my family in the 1911 census
Look to the rainbow among Broadway musicals
Cardinal Egan memorializes forgotten Irish immigrants on Staten Island in New York
The difference between Irish and American college students
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History
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Genealogy