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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The English military barracks that became a source of peace in Northern Ireland
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John Le Carré, Britain's most famous spy writer, died an Irishman
IrishCentral’s Book of the Month: “A Star Called Henry” by Roddy Doyle
Woman launches search for Irish granny who vanished in 1960 London
True story of China's Titanic survivors heads for theaters
A 16-foot Celtic Cross in Boston Harbor honors the Irish Famine dead
Most read
- 1 The unbreakable rules of growing up in an Irish household
- 2 Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
- 3 Traditional Irish recipes to make your summer fresh and tasty
- 4 On This Day: Five killed in Miami Showband Massacre in Co Down in 1975
- 5 WATCH: Experience the majestic Atlantic Skellig coast in South Kerry
- 6 Glen Hansard's Dublin wake and funeral to be open to the public
- 7 WATCH: Dublin's buskers gather to say goodbye to Glen Hansard with the songs he gave them
- 8 From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
- 9 Ed Sheeran brings his charity home to Ireland with new cross-border music project
History
Lughnasa - How to celebrate the ancient Celtic festival
Cork-born Mother Jones, the "most dangerous woman in America," inspired James Connolly
On this day in 1915, Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa was laid to rest in Dublin, igniting a revolution
From St. Swithin's Day to Lughnasa - ancient Irish summer days of note
History of Irish emigration: its tragedies and what we should embrace and celebrate
Genealogy