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.
During Easter Week 1916, more Irish died fighting in WWI in France than in the Rising
Sketches of Roger Casement in the Tower of London days before his execution
The bravery of the Grey Nuns of Montreal during Ireland's Great Hunger
An Irish poet in America recalls the dark secrets of her youth
Where Ireland’s 1916 Rising is being commemorated around the US
Melting pot President New Yorker Eamon DeValera
United Irish Counties launches 1916 book
1916 wasn’t just big in Ireland
Irish government launches website detailing 1916 compensations
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- 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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