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.
Three Irish language speakers wrongfully executed due to lack of English
The 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
Exploring the life of an Irish railroad family at the Baltimore Shrine to the Immigrant Irish
NI Police colluded with Loyalist killers of six Catholics watching World Cup
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- 1 GIVEAWAY: Win VIP trip to the largest Celtic festival in the world, Milwaukee Irish Fest!
- 2 A history of the popular Irish song "The Galway Girl"
- 3 WATCH: This 1983 Irish Spring Soap ad’s accents will make you laugh
- 4 WATCH: When Dolly Parton sang an impromptu gig in a Co Kerry pub
- 5 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 6 On This Day: Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 7 A local's guide to ten of Galway's best-kept secrets
- 8 Bambie Thug finishes sixth at Eurovision, Ireland's highest finish in 24 years
- 9 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry