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 government gives 4,000 reasons Gabriel Byrne was wrong about The Gathering Ireland 2013
50,000 Visitors expected at 2013 John Barry Maritime Festival in Wexford
Anger as Toronto’s Irish famine park closed to visitors for three years
Samantha Power recalls her Irish brogue when appointed as U.S. Ambassador to UN
Former IRA leader Ruairi O Bradaigh remembered by a close friend
Michael Flatley, star of Lord of the Dance denies he has dropped U.S. citizenship for British passport
The Irish Cultural Centre of New England presents the 23rd annual Boston Irish Festival
Portraits of the Irish Leaving Home - documenting the departure of Irish emigrants
Over 2,000 Gathering Ireland events planned for summer 2013 - get your family involved
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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