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.
WATCH: This Irish Emigration Museum is challenging "Paddy A.Irishman"
OTD in 1963: John F. Kennedy writes about trip to Ireland
This 4th of July celebrate your Irish ancestors with an Irish Heritage Tree
60 years ago JFK followed the path of Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg: The untold story of the Pennsylvania Irish Brigade
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Unsung Irish heroes of the Battle of Gettysburg
Burren hot-smoked salmon on a bed of colcannon with stir fried vegetables
First Nations' previously unknown donations to Irish Famine relief uncovered
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 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
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 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