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.
Dublin’s 1916 Rising Freedom Trail will be based on Boston’s
D-Day hero honors WWII Irish soldiers during French highest honor acceptance speech
Sinn Fein takes major step as McGuinness to honor World War I Irish
5 things you didn't know about your Mayo ancestors
1,500-year-old Galway bones and antlers believed to be part of ancient rituals
Quinnipiac Irish Famine museum puts records of the Great Hunger online
Debates bound to arise surrounding the 1916 Easter Rising centenary
“Building Ireland” looks at rumor Drogheda viaduct was built on foundations of Cotton Wool
4,000 year-old pit discovered on Sligo’s Coney Island
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History
Ireland's most famous witchcraft trials
What you should know about Irish American mobster “The Irishman” Danny Greene
WATCH: Drive back in time through 1970s Dublin with this rare video
Original historic US documents to go on display in Belfast this year
On This Day: Winston Churchill ordered Black and Tans into Ireland in 1920
Genealogy