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.
Letters between Michael Collins and Winston Churchill reveal their personal relationship
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NJ Irish American turns his garage into a food bank for those in need
Six prehistoric sites in Ireland could be made UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Irish weird and wonderful Guinness World Records
True story of Jack the Ripper’s Irish victim told at last
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The Irish maid who witnessed Lizzie Borden's horrific axe murders
The Fenian Beatles - the Fab Four's Irish heritage examined
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- 2 Oh, Lisdoonvarna... is a town unlike any other in Ireland
- 3 Documentary reveals incredible colorized footage of the Titanic
- 4 Places in Ireland that can change your life
- 5 Top magical caves to explore in Ireland
- 6 On This Day: The US Civil War begins in 1861
- 7 First oil tankers leave Whitegate as Gardaí clash with protestors at the site
- 8 Lions, luxury and living history - explore the epic Fota Island, off Cork
- 9 On This Day: USS Jamestown sent to Ireland on a Famine-relief mission
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