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.
Telling ancient Ireland's tales: Irish are the stories they tell
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The 11 worst Santa Claus and Christmas jokes of all time
16 common Irish baby names that confuse the rest of the world
LAST CHANCE: Spread the joy of Ireland this festive season with this unique Irish gift box
Eyewitness account of a Great Famine workhouse on Christmas Day 1847
My ancestors as they were on the night of March 31st 1901
The Patrick Kavanagh poem that invokes Irish Christmas nostalgia
Ever wonder how many places in Ireland are called "bally"?
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- 2 Irish man Eugene Daly's eyewitness account of the sinking of the Titanic
- 3 50 facts about Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising
- 4 How DNA testing helped solve one of the Titanic's lingering mysteries
- 5 Fascinated by the 1916 Easter Rising? Check out these Dublin rebel museums
- 6 Dublin still bears the scars of the 1916 Easter Rising
- 7 Irish couple accused of siphoning off cash raised for a Sydney children’s hospital
- 8 Mayo's Addergoole 14 - the tragic tale of one parish's Titanic victims
- 9 On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
History
Irish traditional music remains Ireland's most enduring and defining product
Ireland's 'American Presidents Trail' confirmed as part of America250 programme
110th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising to be marked in Dublin on Sunday
Memories from an Irish pub on Good Friday - lock ins, the police, annual maintenance
On This Day: "Famine Queen" Victoria arrived to Ireland in 1900
Genealogy