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.
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500 Vikings descend on Dublin for the Battle of Clontarf 1,000th anniversary fest
Details of poison gas attack on Irish soldiers in World War I emerge
4,500 year-old path discovered near Galway Bay used by Celts
Traveling 503 islands off the coast of Ireland
Looking back at your family’s past
Stephen Colbert's proud embrace of his Irish roots
An Irish bar owner tells the Internet what’s what
Where to start when tracing your Irish ancestors
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 Ireland’s Ancient East takes center stage in guide to Ireland’s must-see heritage
- 3 How to cook a perfect Irish Sunday roast
- 4 On This Day: JFK arrives in Ireland for historic visit in 1963
- 5 Navan, County Meath - more than "just an hour from Dublin"
- 6 On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
- 7 WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
- 8 On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
- 9 On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
History