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 most amazing thing Michael Collins ever said
Notre Dame used to have Irish Terriers as their mascots
Learn to play Irish music, Part 2: Finding a teacher
Michael Collins "a nasty piece of work," according to one relative of a 1916 leader
Foster care and its roots in ancient, mythological Ireland
The mass card used in Michael Collins's funeral in 1922
New York's new Governor does Irish proud
Shock as Quinnipiac University to close Ireland's Great Hunger Museum
Eisenhower’s legacy and his deal with Irish man Mike Quill
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- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
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- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: Harry Clarke, stained glass artist, is born in Dublin
The intersection of Saint Patrick and paganism in Ireland
St. Patrick’s Breastplate: the prayer of Ireland's patron saint
St. Patrick’s Day on Achill Island - a day unlike any other
WATCH: Irish Colleens mark St. Patrick's Day more than a century ago
Genealogy