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.
Ireland’s greatest jewel heist - an inside job at Dublin Castle?
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
My great-uncle's Easter Rising fight at the South Dublin Union
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
A look inside Co Donegal's Molloy & Sons tweed company
An Irish blessing of light and hope
How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland
The Irish "mudcrawlers" who fled to Wales during the Great Hunger
Irish mother who served British soldiers tea during Troubles shot weeks later
Most read
- 1 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 2 Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 3 Neven Maguire's apple tart and custard recipe
- 4 Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
- 5 The dramatic beauty of County Cavan is just waiting to be uncovered
- 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 Mishnóc: Handcrafted leather goods in County Galway
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