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.
Six prehistoric sites in Ireland could be made UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Irish weird and wonderful Guinness World Records
True story of Jack the Ripper’s Irish victim told at last
Vaccines are on their way! Spare a thought for the Irishman who invented the syringe
The Irish maid who witnessed Lizzie Borden's horrific axe murders
The Fenian Beatles - the Fab Four's Irish heritage examined
Death of super-spy George Blake recalls Irishman’s role in his daring escape from British jail
Eleven moments that changed Ireland’s history
100 years of Connelly family patriotism serving the US
Most read
- 1 The Irish flag and the Ivory Coast flag - the two most confused flags in the world
- 2 Muhammad Ali’s Irish roots and the Clare connection behind the boxing legend
- 3 The magic of Ireland’s thatched cottages
- 4 Three delicious potato recipes for an easy Irish-inspired meal
- 5 The tale of the Irishman who inspired the fictional hero Zorro
- 6 Gone to America - a haunting abandoned house in Donegal reveals its story
- 7 First major Bloomsday with Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh was a wild, drunk time
- 8 No home, no wedding: Housing crisis blamed for collapse in Ireland's marriage rates
- 9 Cool, calm and Celtic: why Ireland makes the perfect coolcation
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