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.
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
A Death in Summer by John Banville
Semi-Sweet by Roisin Meaney
Solace by Belinda McKeon
Tabloid City by Pete Hamill
John Barry-An American Hero in the Age of Sail by Tim McGrath
When Ireland Fell Silent by Harolyn Enis
Room by Emma Donoghue
The Further Adventures of James Joyce by Colm Herron
Most read
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- 2 What to do when you touch down in Ireland
- 3 Bronx man adopted from Dublin at birth finds his Irish family after 63 years
- 4 Arthur Guinness was a servant who turned £100 into the world's most famous stout
- 5 Leonard Cohen's haunting take on Kevin Barry still stops Irish listeners cold
- 6 The apostrophe in Irish names tells a story technology is erasing
- 7 Where are you from? Find out using these Irish surname maps
- 8 What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
- 9 The forgotten 1925 famine that Ireland's new government denied was happening
History
Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
On this day in 1990, the Clancy Brothers lost Tom and Irish music lost a giant
Genealogy
