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.
Three Irish language speakers wrongfully executed due to lack of English
The 1916 commemoration for British soldiers remembered my own relative
Inquest into 1974 Birmingham pub IRA bombings to be reopened
Montreal’s Irish fight for memorial to the 6,000 famine immigrants who died of typhus
Descendants of Irishmen killed in mining disaster 150 years ago search for answers
The infamous story of the Armagh woman who was buried alive
4,800-year-old Newgrange bone leads to theory on how dogs were domesticated
Exploring the life of an Irish railroad family at the Baltimore Shrine to the Immigrant Irish
NI Police colluded with Loyalist killers of six Catholics watching World Cup
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- 1 Fancy living in a beautiful Irish village? Win keys to a stunning home in Adare, Co. Limerick
- 2 What is Ogham? A look at the ancient Irish alphabet
- 3 Sci-fi-like interactive "Portal" between New York and Dublin launches today
- 4 Wake up next to the Atlantic Ocean, win a Donegal home and patch of land in Ireland
- 5 On This Day: 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas Kent executed
- 6 When Dubliners’ "Seven Drunken Nights" was banned for being too rude
- 7 WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
- 8 Faces of the Titanic: John Horgan, lost at sea, remains a mystery man
- 9 What's your Irish County? County Donegal