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.
Ireland’s bubonic plague scare in 1900
My great-uncle's Easter Rising fight at the South Dublin Union
How the Catholic church misjudged the Easter Rising
A look inside Co Donegal's Molloy & Sons tweed company
An Irish blessing of light and hope
How did Hollywood get its name? It all started in Ireland
The Irish "mudcrawlers" who fled to Wales during the Great Hunger
Irish mother who served British soldiers tea during Troubles shot weeks later
The Irish-born publisher who documented America's Gilded-Age zeitgeist
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History
250th Anniversary of America: Recognizing the Irish and New Jersey
Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
Wicklow's Military Road, built to capture a rebel captain
How Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” was linked to Sligo’s cholera outbreak
WATCH: Thousands used to flock Tipperary bone-setter's healing hands
Genealogy
