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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Most read
- 1 Cobblestone Cottage: Stay in an authentic Irish cottage in Donegal
- 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
History
On This Day: Willie Clancy, Irish piper and folklorist, died in 1973
Ancient Sheela na Gigs, Irish statues of women exposing themselves, explained
On This Day: Arthur Guinness, founder of the Dublin brewery, died in 1803
On This Day: Queen Victoria, Ireland's "Famine Queen," died in 1901
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
Genealogy
