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.
The German airman who crash-landed in Wexford during WWII and fell in love with an Irish woman
Irish liberator and US abolitionist's relationship to be depicted in new graphic novel
Ancient bones revealed Irish are not Celts after all
Did the ancient Irish believe in reincarnation?
Are fairies behind the visual trickery of these magic Irish roads?
England World Cup star could have played for Ireland
John Lennon's strong stance in favor of England leaving Ireland
Three ancient logboats uncovered in the River Boyne using drone
Irish American reflects on uncle's service during Pearl Harbor
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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
