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.
How Patriots quarterback great Tom Brady found his Irish roots
De Valera escaped English prison with a key in a cake 100 years ago today
Ireland's Great Hunger - what really happened to the food in Ireland
On This Day: Bloody Sunday erupts in Derry, Northern Ireland in 1972
Remarkable tales of American travelers unexpectedly finding their families on a tour of Ireland
On this day: Meghan Markle’s ancestors married in south Dublin
Could Montreal finally be getting a commemorative park for the 6,000 Irish who died there?
100 years ago today, the Irish War of Independence began
The Irish parliament first met on this day 100 years ago: How did it happen and what did it mean?
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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