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.
Did the ancient Irish trade instruments with musicians in ancient India?
My Grandfather: A forgotten hero of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising
WATCH: 1916 Easter Rising footage featured in British Pathé online archives
Ireland's sacred Celtic holidays
Remembering Lily Kempson, the longest surviving rebel from the 1916 Easter Rising
LISTEN: "Skibbereen" a beautiful Irish ballad with a tragic Irish Famine tale
On This Day: Thomas J Clarke remembered 110 years after his execution
The Irish soldier who went on to rule a small kingdom in India
The Easter Rising and a day at the races for my Irish grandfather
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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
- 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
