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.
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Moran clan
Michael Sheen's Irish roots revealed
The Cork man who 'named' the "United States of America"
Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Kelly clan
Irish and Celtic names listed among “beautiful rare girl names”
IrishCentral readers’ favorite Irish names for boys
Hollywood star Olivia Wilde’s Irish roots
Reagan: Irish High Kings to US Presidents, the lordly name and its origins
Quinn: What's in an Irish name?
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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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- 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
