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.
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
Who was W. B. Yeats and why he still matters
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
The Irish duo who murdered 16 people and sold the cadavers
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 3 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 4 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 5 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 6 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 Irish country green spring soup recipe
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
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