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.
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- 1 Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 2 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 3 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 4 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 5 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 6 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
- 7 On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
- 8 The poetry of Irish sayings and phrases
- 9 On his birthday, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel win still resonates across Ireland and beyond
History
On This Day: Handel's "Messiah" premiered in Fishamble Street, Dublin
On his birthday, Samuel Beckett’s Nobel Prize still speaks to modern Ireland
Ten little known facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
On his birthday, Seamus Heaney’s Nobel win still resonates across Ireland and beyond
The dazzling life of Mabelle Gilman Corey
Genealogy