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.
Jackie Kennedy disliked Catholics, said they always felt persecuted
A pop-up Irish Gaeltacht is coming to New York next week!
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Michael Collins Dublin walking tour - key locations in the Big Fella’s life
New podcast will delve into the tragic history of Ireland’s Great Hunger
John F. Kennedy assassination target was Governor Connally says historian
Irish Twitter account names every single Great Hunger emigrant
Auction of Patrick Pearse’s mysterious second note of surrender in 1916
The near disaster of my first holy communion
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History
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
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Ireland has over 300 saints and these are the holy sites they left behind
Genealogy