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.
Caroline Kennedy sworn in as new U.S. ambassador to Japan
JFK planned private family visit to Ireland at time of his death
“Diary of an Exile” the remarkable work of an Irish construction worker in Britain
President John F Kennedy’s life and death through film (VIDEOS)
New Irish roots show a huge hit on Irish television TG4 (VIDEO)
Irish cop’s memories of guarding John F Kennedy in Ireland in 1963
Epitaphs of wisdom and wit found on Irish tombstones
Anjelica Huston’s new memoir reveals that childhood abuse that drove her to suicide
An unwed Magdalene Laundry mother seeks her son in “Philomena” (VIDEO)
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- 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
Why the Irish no longer mark Remembrance Day
More than 30,000 Irish soldiers lost in World War I named in online archive
Armistice Day: Irish World War I soldier describes his experiences
On This Day: IRA bomb kills 12 at Enniskillen Remembrance Day service in 1987
On this Day: Bram Stoker, the Irish author of "Dracula," was born in 1847
Genealogy