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.
Irish Jewish Gathering calls on 50,000 Irish Jews to come home
Irish language education service achieves the status of third-level institution
Historic 1916 Rebel sites to be saved from destruction
Could Ireland survive if this warm summer climate becomes the norm?
Notre Dame archaeologists unearth “lost” famine village on Galway island
In Focus: Cathleen Dower, founder of Fitzgerald School of Irish Dance, NJ
An Irishman running scared with the bulls in Pamplona
Jean Butler hails Riverdance as Irish dancers hit the Guinness Book of Records
The top ten must-see historic and cultural sites in Ireland
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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
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