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.
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Irish government should stop hiding Fighting 69th battle flag
Most enviable position in the world, a profile of a Quality Manager at Guinness
Irish Open golf tournament set for County Down, first time in 70 years
Only in Ireland! Half-goat half-sheep (VIDEO)
Struggle for Irish Independence, the Howth gun-running incident
An astronaut’s guide to Ireland with Commander Chris Hadfield
Ten ways to cure Irish homesickness
Speak like a proper Irishman with these “Culchie” definitions
Most read
- 1 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
- 2 The day an Irish brother saved a stranger and lost his sister to 9/11
- 3 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 4 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 5 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 6 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
- 7 An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
- 8 Irish chef Neven Maguire's golden crunch roast potatoes recipe
- 9 From coffin ships to American shores, how Irish Famine refugees survived impossible odds
History
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
The Joyce Clan: its meaning, Irish derivation and the places in Ireland it can be found
An Irish immigration story - the mysterious disappearance of my great-aunt Cissie
25 years on, remembering the Irish and Irish Americans killed on 9/11
Genealogy
