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.
How many Dublins are there in America?
On This Day: Gene Kelly, Hollywood's dancing son of Derry, would have turned 114
Billy Graham tried to stop JFK becoming president because he was Catholic
On This Day: Michael Collins killed in an ambush in Co Cork
John Ford's handmade valentine reveals his obsession with Maureen O'Hara
WATCH: A look at glorious, golden Galway more than 80 years ago
The Dublin doctor who fought to end slavery and Irish racism in the US
The surprising Irish history behind Hennessy Cognac
This two-ingredient campfire treat gets a boozy Irish twist
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 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
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Making the dead welcome - All Souls’ Day in Ireland
Genealogy
