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.
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
Half of Ireland slept under thatch in the 1800s and the craft is now nearly gone
Green and growing: Cork farmer shares update on Irish Heritage Tree forest
Jackie Kennedy almost married a successful Irish lawyer
Irish Vikings had brown hair, not blond, study finds
Surname study uncovered roots of Irish surnames
Expert names the top 25 Celtic baby names
The most popular Irish baby names in America
The Doyle clan - its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
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- 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
