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.
Kilkenny unveils memorial to one of the youngest military casualties of World War I
The Irishman who sailed to America with Christopher Columbus
The Irishman who claims to have saved Adolf Hitler’s life
New radio documentary follows Irish photojournalist who captured JFK's last moments
Oliver Cromwell’s war crimes: The Sack of Wexford on this day in 1649
John F. Kennedy Gravesite reopens at Arlington National Cemetery
1943 - Navy Destroyer USS The Sullivans is commissioned
Richie Neal's Irish roots and American political career
New research reveals Irish explorer Tom Crean’s journey along America’s coast
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- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Real stories of the women buried at Glasnevin Cemetery in Dublin
Why real Irish American history is not taught in schools
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
Genealogy
