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.
Double The Gathering fun as Twin Fest Ireland goes global to reunite twins
President Higgins leads Clare tribute to those who died in the Great Famine
Handwritten emigrant letters exhibition will go on display in Bruff, County Limerick
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Find the place in Ireland that most closely matches the values in your life with the new Census map
Wexford choir featured on “Ed Sullivan Show” reunite for JFK50
Waterford artist Seamus Kelly bog art reflects on 13,000 years of Irish history
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Global Diaspora Forum opens in Ireland with major speakers attending
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- 2 One Irish surname may be the earliest ever recorded in all of Europe
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- 4 “Who speaks properly?” Belfast toddler puts her parents' accents to the test
- 5 On This Day: War criminal Oliver Cromwell’s Massacre of Drogheda in 1649
- 6 Wild wallabies wander this deserted Irish island
- 7 Explore ten Irish potato recipes that have defined comfort cooking for centuries
- 8 Ireland’s most-visited heritage sites in 2023, from castles to monuments to gardens
- 9 Five Irish memorials honor the victims and heroes lost on September 11
History
What does it mean to be Irish in America right now?
Expert Irish genealogy group publishes new guide to Irish Civil Registration
On This Day: John Barry, the Irish "Father of the American Navy," dies in 1803
On This Day: JFK defended his Catholic faith to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
How Jack B Yeats' “Liffey Swim” won an Olympic medal in 1924
Genealogy
