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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- 1 Famous film and TV locations in Ireland you can actually visit
- 2 Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
- 3 Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
- 4 Saints, sailors, distilleries and demesnes, County Offaly has it all
- 5 Kerry mourns Jamey Carney as Taoiseach condemns "filthy" online abuse against murdered New Yorker
- 6 WATCH: What did "new look" fashion look like in 1970s Ireland?
- 7 Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
- 8 Antrim tragedy: Deaths of girl, 8, and two adults being treated as a murder-suicide
- 9 Meet the artists behind Ireland's first vermouth, now landing in America
History
The Leitrim orphan girl who became New Orleans' "Mother of Orphans"
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it.
Irish famine emigrant's emotional letter home to Mom and Dad in 1850
Remembering Countess Markievicz, the rebel who died 99 years ago today
Behind the name: Róisín, the perfect choice for your "little rose"
Genealogy
