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.
Facts you should know about Guinness before St. Patrick's Day
WATCH: Irish dance of yesteryear, amazing historic footage
On This Day: The first burial took place at Glasnevin Cemetery in 1832
The history behind some of Ireland's most famous symbols
WATCH: Co Leitrim locals dance at the crossroads for St. Patrick's Day 1953
The Irish contribution to Major League Baseball
On This Day: Irish Famine writer William Carleton is born
How your Irish ancestors traditionally upheld Lent
What you should know about the Celtic symbol for strength
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History
How Daniel O'Connell became Ireland's Great Emancipator and won Catholic rights
Irish Genealogy website offers free access to decades of birth, marriage and death records
How US textbooks fail to teach the real story of the Irish Famine
How a Norman knight's bloodline became one of Ireland's most common surnames
The dark secrets behind the Kennedy family's Camelot image
Genealogy
