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.
"Movement of Extremists": the secret police records from the 1916 Easter Rising
WATCH: British Pathé’s treasures of Irish history unearthed
John Haltigan - a Kilkenny Fenian born 200 years ago
Nothing prepared me for what I found in Irish adoption records
On This Day: The American inquiry into the Titanic disaster starts
An IRA Holy Week shooting in New York
New Irish dance feature film 'Curls' is looking for support
Augusta, Georgia's little-known Limerick Mayor Patrick Walsh
Irish rebel James Connolly deserves a statue in his Edinburgh birthplace, says historian
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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
