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.
Bobby Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe affair confirmed by letter
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On This Day: Irish revolutionary Wolfe Tone was sentenced to death in 1798
The strange history of the Nazi plans to invade Ireland
Irish slave owner's role in illegal slave trafficking in 1860 explored in Netflix documentary
The terrible traumas of Ted Kennedy plus his greatest victories revealed in new book
JFK may have had gay experiences with friend claims biographer
Boy George "sad and proud" of his ancestor, a famed executed IRA man
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- 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
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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
