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.
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
JFK's 1945 article on De Valera and reuniting Ireland
The infamous murder of an Irish beauty, Colleen Bawn
Remembering Tom Crean, the Co Kerry ice man
WATCH: US travel documentary from 1934 gives glimpse of Ireland
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
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