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.
On This Day: An IRA bomb kills five people in Brighton in 1984
Beloved actress Angela Lansbury, who was an Irish citizen, has died
Irish healing sweathouse discovered in Famine-era Australia archaelogical dig
Carrying on the tradition of lighting gas streetlamps in the Phoenix Park
Irish ancestry unearthed - every census since 1926 online
The O'Neills - Everything you need to know about the Irish family name
Where does the phrase “the luck of the Irish” come from?
The surprising origins of the Irish - from Russia to the Middle East
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Dunne clan
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- 5 Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 6 Is Biden an Irish name?
- 7 Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
- 8 Inspiring Irish and Irish American quotes
- 9 A nine-month journey for the Irish soul you haven't quite met yet
History
On This Day: Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners was born in 1934
81 years after his death, the world still remembers John McCormack's voice
Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
Forty-six years ago today Muhammad Ali defeated Leon Spinks, fueled by Irish pride
Genealogy
