Roots
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New York Irish, slavery, the Civil War and Archbishop 'Dagger' Hughes
Last living sibling of John F. Kennedy celebrates her 91st birthday
Irish speakers from Australia to Canada hold world record conversation
Mark Twain’s ancestor was ‘witchfinder general’ in Belfast trial
A Man in Full - exclusive interview with CIA Director John Brennan
The surprising Irish history behind Hennessy Cognac
1950s Irish orphan’s happy ever after in New York
Halloween: An Irish invention and an American export
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History
Red wine in Georgian Dublin: it's healing and detrimental effects
What did the Titanic passengers eat?
Five surprising facts about some of the 1916 Easter Rising leaders
WATCH: 75 years after, an eye-witness to the 1916 Easter Rising tells her story
Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s poet president who helped save the Irish language
Genealogy