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.
The Irish legend of Finn Mac Cumhaill and the Salmon of Knowledge
Combining DNA matches with tried and true searches
Did St. Brendan arrive in America before Christopher Columbus?
Did you know a cave in Ireland is home to the “Gates to Hell”?
How the Irish ward off evil spirits at Halloween
Spooky Irish traditions to know at Halloween
3,000-year-old baby skeleton discovered at the Irish birthplace of Halloween
How to research your Irish genealogy using the Library of Congress
On This Day: Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, is born in 1903
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- 5 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 6 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 7 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
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