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 IRA Chief of Staff who was “unbought, unconquered, and unpurchasable to the last”
Toronto honors doctor for compassion shown to Irish Great Hunger emigrants
Irishwoman the British could not contain whose name has faded from history
The remarkable story of John Keegan Casey, the bold Fenian boy
Early IRA ambushes in War of Independence were ill-equipped but successful
Stick fighting and the origins of the Shillelagh
Shocking murder of a 15-year-old Fianna Boy Scout 100 years ago
These US astronauts all have roots in Ireland
50 years ago today, Mary Jo Kopechne died in Ted Kennedy’s car at Chappaquiddick
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- 1 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 2 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 3 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 4 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 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
- 8 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
- 9 President Michael D. Higgins accuses Israel of leaking his Iran letter