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.
Incredible documentary examines 20th-century Irish rural life
Margaret Haughery: The "Irish angel" of New Orleans
When Jackie Kennedy brought her children to Waterford after JFK’s death
Spanish Armada treasure discovered off the Sligo coast
Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
On the anniversary of the 1798 rebellion we remember the Irish rebel, Betsy Gray
Illegally adopted Irish woman finally finds birth parents thanks to DNA testing
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
Most read
- 1 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 2 Neven Maguire's apple tart and custard recipe
- 3 Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 4 Is Biden an Irish name?
- 5 Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
- 6 Eleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots
- 7 The magic of Walt Disney’s deep Irish roots
- 8 A journey through the historic pubs of Dublin
- 9 New York State Bar Association signs historic accord with Bar of Ireland
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