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
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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
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
- 8 Artist Paul Henry's thoughts on the enchanting West of Ireland
- 9 25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
History
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
Genealogy
