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 fascinating 8,000-year history of Irish cuisine
Why my orphaned Irish father will always be my best friend
EVENT: Don’t miss the last few days of The Irish Civil War National Conference
WATCH: Archive footage of a conversation with an Irish gravedigger from 1971
First transatlantic flight ended with a crash-landing in a Galway bog
On This Day: 80 years ago Johnny McCormack, Ireland’s beloved tenor passed away
Paparazzi hounded James Joyce after his late marriage to Nora Barnacle
On This Day: W.B. Yeats was born in 1865 in Dublin
When 30,000 attended a Fenian Irish picnic in New York City in 1865
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- 3 Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
- 4 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 5 How to make the perfect Irish soda bread
- 6 The extraordinary life of Thomas Francis Meagher the Immortal Irishman
- 7 The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
- 8 Vincent 'Mad Dog' Coll: The Irish immigrant turned NYC gangster
- 9 Ireland urged to recognise symptoms of the nation’s “Hidden Condition”
History
Michael Malloy - the Irishman in The Bronx that could not be murdered
The extraordinary life of Thomas Francis Meagher the Immortal Irishman
The Irish Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
Greatest quotes from and about Michael Collins
Genealogy