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.
Ireland’s Brehon Laws were way ahead of their time
Stand with Irish stories and sustain independent journalism
Six interesting facts about Easter Rising 1916 leaders
Seán Heuston’s stand at the Mendicity Institution helped shape the Easter Rising
This once popular Irish name is at risk of extinction
Grolier Club exhibition explores the Irish Literary Revival and national independence
How Woodrow Wilson deceived Irish America over 1916, ignored Casement’s execution
The fascinating jobs that no longer exist – revealed by Ireland’s 1926 Census
The Irish hands that built the Empire State Building
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- 3 Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
- 4 Ireland's most breathtaking natural wonders that deserve a spot on your travel list
- 5 How a Norman knight's bloodline became one of Ireland's most common surnames
- 6 How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
- 7 Homemade blackberry jam and custard donuts bring back a taste of Irish summer
- 8 These Baileys Irish cream cheese swirl brownies are pure indulgence
- 9 Trump's whirlwind Ireland visit will mix diplomacy, protests and golf
History
How Daniel O'Connell became Ireland's Great Emancipator and won Catholic rights
Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
How a Norman knight's bloodline became one of Ireland's most common surnames
The dark secrets behind the Kennedy family's Camelot image
Genealogy
