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.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch isn’t feeling the love from her Irish cousins
Explore the timeline of W.B. Yeats life on the 150th anniversary of his birth
Nicole Kidman’s Irish ancestors
19th century medicine in Ireland
Irishmen and their World War One wills
Montreal ‘Walk to the Stone” commemorates 6,000 Irish famine victims
US owner of destroyed 'Quiet Man' cottage opposes protected status
How Hollywood’s “The Quiet Man” transformed the tranquil village of Cong
Remembering Hennessy and Lafayette 250 years on (VIDEO)
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- 4 Traditional Irish recipes for a taste of home
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- 6 Symbol of Ireland: the Irish harp's sweet music and myth
- 7 How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution
- 8 Why Ireland should be your must-visit food destination in 2026
- 9 The Irishman who discovered South Pass and the Oregon Trail
History
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
"Most dangerous woman in America" - Mother Jones remembered for a life of labour and defiance
Titanic hero Irishman Thomas Andrews epitomized bravery as ship went down
DNA test led a Chicago woman to find family ties to Mrs. O’Leary of the Great Fire fame
University of Galway launched digital database of Irish American emigrant letters
Genealogy
