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.
The Irish who dug the tunnels for New York’s subway system
What do the names of Ireland's counties mean?
How to find photographs of your ancestors? Photo detective reveals
Long-lost photo of Michael Collins taken hours before his death found in Dublin attic
Rare Irish girl's name with a very cool meaning is bound to be "the new Maeve"
"You will certainly return for more" - John Hinde on photography in Ireland
Amazing photos from early Kennedy family trips to Ireland
Discover Ireland's culture & tradition at these unique Irish experiences
Ireland's Virtual Record Treasury releases 25,000 new historical records
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- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
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- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
From the Great Blasket to America - a memoir of the longest surviving islander
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Genealogy
