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.
Gathering event celebrates return of medieval carvings to Scattery Island monastic settlement
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Thousands gather in Guildhall Square for mass recording of 'Danny Boy'
Jackie O was more Irish than JFK but was ashamed of her family’s links to Ireland
“Home to Clare” Gathering event celebrates 125th anniversary of the Claremen’s Association
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The Irish Kennedys
Think you're Irish? You might need to say you're British to get some roots information!
Joe Biden’s Irish Roots
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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
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- 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