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.
Photos of the ‘Champion of the US’ T.J. O’Mahony discovered
John F Kennedy’s white 1960s Cadillac hearse to be auctioned
Calls for ‘Irish Giant’ Charles Bryne to be laid to rest after 200 years in British museum
Irish emigrants in New York tell of missing home at Christmas
Irish San Francisco gold rush artifacts found in archaeology dig
The most annoying words used by Irish people in 2011
Neil Jordan movie sparks French woman’s devotion to Michael Collins
Titanic treasures headed for auction in 2012
Amateur divers find 1917 U-Boat wreckage off Cork coast
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- 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