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.
On This Day: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian leader, dies in the U.S.
Remembering the Irish NYPD patrolman who wrote one of Ireland's most loved ballads
The Irish immigrant who penned New Zealand's national anthem
The smell of an open fire in Ireland is intoxicating, but what is Irish turf?
Unique Irish spin on this classic baby name is on the rise in Ireland
WATCH: How glamorous was Galway in this 1957 tourism video?
On This Day: Charles Stewart Parnell married Kitty O’Shea
WATCH: Fascinating footage of an Irish community gathering peat 100 years ago
Keeping the ancient fires of Saint John's Eve burning bright in Ireland
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- 1 Why Queen Victoria became known as the Famine Queen and never shook the name (76 characters)
- 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
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Nixon won the White House on this day in 1968 and later trashed the Irish on tape
WATCH: Rare 1940 film captures Dublin trams, Nelson’s Pillar and a packed Croke Park
JFK's Irish tweed hat from Éamon de Valera heads to auction
Mayo’s starving walked 15 miles for food and were told to wait until lunch was over
Genealogy
