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.
Scientists investigating authenticity of message in bottle from French girl drowned on the Titanic
History awaits you as Ireland reopens this summer, get inspired
John F. Kennedy’s 60th inauguration anniversary honored with Irish Euro note
The Cork man who cured leprosy is one of five Irish names history forgot
Claddagh Records relaunched as part of Universal Music
When John F. Kennedy’s ancestor's house was discovered in Co Limerick
New series will tell the story of Irish immigrants who built the Empire State Building
Free entry to Irish heritage sites for the rest of the year
Irish amateur archeologists discover Cairn using Google Earth
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 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
