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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- 2 Traditional Irish hearty vegetable soup recipe
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- 4 Baileys Irish Cream and Irish whiskey cocktail recipe
- 5 WATCH: Amazing footage of Dublin’s Four Courts being rebuilt a century ago
- 6 When New York was Irish, in summers long ago
- 7 Old Head Golf Links in Kinsale wins Visit Cork 2024 Green Award
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History
Give the gift of Irish heritage and storytelling this Christmas
On This Day: "Fairytale of New York" singer Kirsty MacColl tragically killed
How one little girl inspired a New York journalist to restore faith in Santa
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
Is Newgrange's winter solstice light show a fake?
Genealogy