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.
How the Irish helped keep Shakespeare’s English alive
How Betty Williams and a peace march changed Northern Ireland forever
What's your Irish County? County Offaly
Why County Offaly is the greatest place in the world
The Monaghan man who filmed the devastation of Nagasaki and Hiroshima
An American WWII plane was excavated from Irish field 76 years after crashing
On This Day: Irish philanthropist Thomas Barnardo was born in 1845
Famine orphans from Northern Ireland transported to Australia
What's your Irish County? County Longford
Most read
- 1 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 2 Neven Maguire's apple tart and custard recipe
- 3 Winston Churchill accused De Valera of frolicking with the Germans and Japanese
- 4 Kerry's Valentia Island - a secret at the edge of the world
- 5 The dramatic beauty of County Cavan is just waiting to be uncovered
- 6 Eleven early Hollywood stars with Irish roots
- 7 The magic of Walt Disney’s deep Irish roots
- 8 A journey through the historic pubs of Dublin
- 9 Mishnóc: Handcrafted leather goods in County Galway
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