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.
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Surprising spots to use the ‘cupla focal’ in Ireland
Francis O'Neill: The Irish cop in Chicago who saved traditional Irish music
Spancil Hill - The tale behind the famous Irish ballad
Irish woman reunited with long-lost father tragically reveals he has Alzheimer's
Best songs of the 1916 Easter Rising
The disturbing origins of the Irish Famine term “take the soup”
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
On This Day: Brian Keenan released by Shi’ite militiamen in 1990
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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
