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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History
Ninety-two died in ten minutes off West Cork, and Ireland finally listened
Charlie Chaplin once visited Big Jim Larkin behind bars in Sing Sing prison
On This Day: JFK was declared winner of the 1960 US presidential election
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
More than 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I named in online archive
Genealogy