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.
"Bloody Irish" 1916 musical on PBS stays away from standard version of Irish history
Would you eat it? A biscuit that survived the Titanic is up for auction
Proof the Irish language is far from dead, from the Aran Islands to Dublin
First Great Hunger grave markers for New York unmarked graves
Blueshirts, Irish pro-fascist party, recalled in sale of rare uniform
Danny Boy! Mets sensation Daniel Murphy is close to his Irish roots
Our Irish name’s history exposed and shamed
Petition launched to officially re-name Irish Famine “The Great Hunger”
Ireland’s Minister for Arts tours New Brunswick for International Famine Commemoration
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History
Plaque unveiled to mark birth place of Harry Clarke, Irish stained glass artist & illustrator
Titanic timeline: Tracing the famous ship's creation and demise
WATCH: An Oscar-nominated look at the history of Dublin's Abbey Theatre
On This Day: Arthur Griffith, who helped launch Sinn Féin and shape modern Ireland, was born in 1872
Mystery of Irish World War II hero finally solved after six decades
Genealogy
