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.
Spancil Hill - The tale behind the famous Irish ballad
The man who witnessed Michael Collins' death in 1922
Irish woman reunited with long-lost father tragically reveals he has Alzheimer's
LISTEN: The greatest songs of The Troubles in Northern Ireland
Best songs of the 1916 Easter Rising
On This Day: Hurricane Charley blows into Ireland in 1986
A tale of two famous Michaels, both born in Co Cork in the autumn of 1890
The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
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- 1 Seamus Heaney's alma mater draws from the past to inspire today’s writers and poets
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 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