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.
After the Titanic sank, the ship’s owner hid away in Co Galway
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On This Day: Arthur Griffith, the Sinn Féin founder, died 104 years ago
Ten Easter bunny jokes for the wee ones
Irish service that reconnects Irish emigrants with families "inundated" since launch
Celebrate your Irish roots this spring with an Irish Heritage Tree discount
Popular Irish boy names as Gaeilge
The best of Irish music and dance - Gradam Ceoil TG4 2024 award recipients announced
DNA evidence shows how well Irish integrated with Vikings
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- 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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- 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
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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