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.
Mad Mac and Father Sexton: Irish Prisoners of War during the Second World War
Spanish Armada sailors may lie in unmarked mass grave in Northern Ireland
300 years of Catholic parish records site racks up 4 million hits
Irish government will fund 1916 Rising centenary events in Britain
Many No Irish Need Apply ads discovered in the New York Times archives (PHOTOS)
Record numbers visit historic Clare Loop Head lighthouse (PHOTOS)
Ireland’s government invests $2m into 5,000-year-old Ancient East (PHOTOS)
School days provide more clues to Irish ancestry
Ireland’s historical newspapers – The Belfast Morning News
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History
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
