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.
Five books for researching your Irish family history
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The O'Brien Clan
How the most Irish town in America was built on seaweed
Discovery of 20-year long rainfall in Ireland in 2345BC
The real Irish woman behind one of the most iconic images from Ireland's Famine
All about the Irish surname O'Hara
What does "amadán" mean?
The top twenty books every Irish American should read
How this North American couple discovered their ancestors on their Irish honeymoon
The Dublin spots featured in James Joyce's "Ulysses"
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- 1 Secrets of the Daniel O’Connell monument in Dublin
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 What is Bloomsday? Why does James Joyce's "Ulysses" matter so much?
- 4 IrishCentral Book Club's ultimate Irish reading list
- 5 WATCH: Ireland as seen from a horse-drawn caravan 50 years ago
- 6 John Lennon was getting ready to retire to Co Mayo before his tragic death
- 7 Was the real King Arthur Irish?
- 8 Yeats’s Nobel Prize win marked a turning point in Irish literature
- 9 Celebrating the genius of James Joyce on Bloomsday
