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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How the Irish beat the Nazis: Swastika football program up for auction
Project inspired by Boston’s Freedom Trail to put 1916 Easter Rising on the map
Lucy and Thomas top baby names in Ireland for 2013
A year of sorrow, a year of pain, but some joy too
25-year-old female Catholic who likes her booze? You’re probably online dating
The changing face of Ireland throughout the decades (PHOTOS)
Carlow man’s photos from Ireland in the 60s are an Internet sensation
Most read
- 1 WATCH: Thousands used to flock Tipperary bone-setter's healing hands
- 2 US Embassy warns of "unintended consequences" as Ireland bans goods from Israeli settlements
- 3 Cornelius Ryan, the Irish D-Day reporter who re-invented journalism
- 4 Murders show savagery of day-to-day life during Great Hunger
- 5 Cork witness recorded shock at poverty and death during the Great Hunger
- 6 Rosie O'Donnell says Irish neighbours 'worried' for her after weight loss
- 7 Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
- 8 Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
- 9 Irish cheese and potato flatbread recipe
History
The Irish didn't just come to America, they helped create it
Navigating nationalism and neutrality: Irish-American opinion and the 1916 Rising
Mountrath: A market town in Co Laois
New exhibit at Turlough Park recalls Soap Box dreams from 1950s Ireland
Irish writer Lafcadio Hearn, a bridge to Ireland, Greece and Japan
Genealogy