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.
Bob Dylan is massively influenced by Ireland’s folk singers The Clancy Brothers
How an elephant named Cindy came to be memorialized in Co Roscommon
On the anniversary of the 1798 rebellion we remember the Irish rebel, Betsy Gray
Illegally adopted Irish woman finally finds birth parents thanks to DNA testing
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
History awaits you as Ireland reopens this summer, get inspired
John F. Kennedy’s 60th inauguration anniversary honored with Irish Euro note
5 discoveries and inventions you never knew were made by the Irish
Claddagh Records relaunched as part of Universal Music
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- 1 WIN a private walking tour of Dublin's Georgian architecture with lunch at the Merrion Hotel
- 2 On This Day: Irish American Bruce Springsteen was "born in the USA"
- 3 Two Irish favorites combine in this delicious apple and Jameson tart recipe
- 4 The top five places to visit in County Tipperary
- 5 On This Day: Celebrated Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born in 1943
- 6 Tracing your Irish ancestry - The Brennan Clan
- 7 On This Day: "Typhoid" Mary Mallon was born in Co Tyrone
- 8 Fall into autumn with this Bramley apple strudel recipe from Bord Bia
- 9 All about the Irish surname O'Hara
History
WATCH: Ireland's "supertrain" was the "smooth, swift, and safe" way to travel in 1973
Irish research raises doubts that incestuous ‘god-kings’ ruled during Neolithic Ireland
The history of Irish coffee and how to make it (with a dash of Tullamore Dew!)
On This Day: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader, dies in the U.S.
On This Day: The siege of the Four Courts, the beginning of the Irish Civil War
Genealogy
