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.
Glorifying World War 1 and denying Easter Rising 1916
Ireland's annual season of summer school think-ins is in full swing
Ad king James O’Shaughnessy was the Irish-speaking son of a poor Galway emigrant
20,000 Irishmen fought for Canada in World War I
TV review: Who Do You Think You Are? Season 5, episode 3
Today, why not pig out on this Irish classic – bacon, cabbage and potatoes!
Discover your Irish ancestor’s day in court
Could the four bodies found at Trinity roadworks be Vikings?
WATCH: Historic footage of 1956 Irish Army marching in "peacetime exercise"
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 WATCH: How to make the perfect Irish crisp sandwich
- 4 On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
- 5 WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
- 6 LISTEN: Liam Neeson reads Patrick Kavanagh’s “In Memory of My Father”
- 7 On This Day: Éamon de Valera becomes President of Ireland in 1959
- 8 On This Day: President Kennedy delivers his iconic Berlin Wall speech in Germany
- 9 Ireland's six national parks to check out
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