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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Most read
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- 2 The "P.S. I Love You" filming locations you can visit in Ireland
- 3 Police learn where Glen Hansard spent final hours between Wren’s Nest and fatal crash
- 4 Ireland's most popular counties and their top attractions
- 5 Irish politicians trying to ensure Trump stays away from parliament – and a Connolly clash
- 6 First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
- 7 WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
- 8 WATCH: Epic Irish singsong of "The Rattlin Bog" atop Mt Kilimanjaro
- 9 The health issue that is affecting almost two in three adults in Ireland
History
On This Day: Thomas Francis Meagher, the greatest Irishman in American history, was born
On This Day: Easter Rising rebel Sir Roger Casement was executed in Britain
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
WATCH: Poignant short Irish film shows the reality of living in rural Ireland in 1974
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
Genealogy
