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.
Justice for Kerry man of 1895 who was executed for murder he didn't commit
On This Day: Irish woman shoots Benito Mussolini in the face
When a farmer discovered an ancient Bronze Age tomb on Dingle Peninsula
When Elizabeth Taylor brought a pet monkey to her Dublin hotel
The Irish roots of Anne Rice, the queen of vampire novels
WATCH: Rare footage documents life in 1920s Ireland
John Wayne’s love of Ireland and "The Quiet Man"
NYC's Tenement Museum shouldn't go "woke"
New book suggests a way of finding meaning through ancient Celtic wisdom
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- 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
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
On this day in 1990, Mary Robinson became the first woman elected president of Ireland
Ireland’s answer to the Bayeux Tapestry is just an hour from London
LISTEN: "Making Empire" and the Irish with historian Jane Ohlmeyer
Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
Genealogy