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.
Cork wealthy dined on “turtle soup and champagne” during Ireland’s Great Hunger
On This Day: Jim Larkin, lion of the Irish labor movement, was born in 1874
Grace O’Malley statue unveiled in Co Mayo’s "Town of Two Graces"
On This Day: James Joyce, author of “Ulysess” died in Zurich in 1941
Aran sweaters, Claddagh rings, tin whistles: the story behind Ireland’s beloved artifacts
On This Day: Daniel O'Connell made his first speech opposing Union with England
WATCH: Conan O’Brien explores his family's "auld sod" in Co Limerick
The power and influence of Ireland's fairy trees remain
On This Day: The fatal "Night Of The Big Wind" took place across Ireland in 1839
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- 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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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
