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.
Labor leader seals James Connolly center deal with $50,000 pledge
Family fight against "profoundly wrong" record of man executed in Easter Rising
Inspiring emigrant letters home to Ireland from America in the Famine era
Irish American’s 1967 beer run to visit buddies fighting in Vietnam War
Patrick Pearse's 1916 surrender letter sells in London - for over twice its estimated price
The most popular baby names in Ireland for 2015
Figures give dramatic picture of Irish as the founding immigrants in the USA
Irish journalist, academic say Great Famine was not genocide
Forgotten secrets for becoming an Irish beauty
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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
