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.
Margaret Haughery: The "Irish angel" of New Orleans
When Jackie Kennedy brought her children to Waterford after JFK’s death
Spanish Armada treasure discovered off the Sligo coast
Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
On the anniversary of the 1798 rebellion we remember the Irish rebel, Betsy Gray
Illegally adopted Irish woman finally finds birth parents thanks to DNA testing
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
History awaits you as Ireland reopens this summer, get inspired
Most read
- 1 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 2 The magic of Ireland’s thatched cottages
- 3 Three delicious potato recipes for an easy Irish-inspired meal
- 4 Ways you know you grew up in the Irish countryside
- 5 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 6 Summer of strikes: Every European walkout that could wreck your holiday flights this summer
- 7 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 8 This Irish brown bread ice cream recipe is unexpectedly good
- 9 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
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